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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Julian Worrall</title>
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		<title>Kenzo Tange centennial celebrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenzo Tange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryue Nishisawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenzo Tange, one of the most significant Japanese architect of the 20th century, was born 100 years ago this year. Tange spent much of his childhood in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on the Seto Inland Sea, and all of the most significant of his early works dating from the 1950s, from the Hiroshima Peace Center to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hall of fame: Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto, Setouchi, OMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Setouchi Triennale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Toyo Ito winning this year’s Pritzker Prize last month — “architecture’s Nobel” — Japan’s architects continue to bestride the international architectural world as colossi. ]]></description>
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		<title>Shigeru Ban: between function and beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shigeru Ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Architecture is rooted in the basic human need for shelter. But the profession today pays little attention to situations where the need for shelter is most urgent, such as after a disaster. ]]></description>
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		<title>Breathing life into the nature of architecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Staging an exhibition of architecture, perhaps more than any other art form, demands a curatorial grasp of space-making. In the inevitable absence of the built reality, stand-ins in the form of drawings, models, photographs and film are drafted in to explain and evoke architectural ideas and experiences. While often interesting in themselves for their graphic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metabolism: When the future was still ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;fukk&#333;&#8221; (&#8220;reconstruction&#8221;) &#8212; is once again in the air. Ubiquitous during the postwar period, it enjoyed an earlier vogue a generation before as Tokyo was rebuilt after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. But while the word may be the same, its meaning and spirit changes from era to era. A new exhibition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building future cities from grains of sand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the last of the debris is cleared from the Great East Japan Earthquake and plans are drawn up to reconstruct the devastated towns and communities, architects and planners are pondering not just to how replace what was lost, but how to improve upon it. With fortuitous timing, Tokyo this September is hosting a feast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dominique Perrault: Urban Landscape&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery Closes Dec. 26 The work of French architect Dominique Perrault is currently on show at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Today numbered among the top tier of French architects alongside Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc, Perrault shot to international fame early by scooping a major competition for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking beyond art&#8217;s boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Art, it is often said, is a lens through which to see the world differently. &#8220;Differently&#8221; could mean more intensely, or more clearly, or in a new and unfamiliar way. This inevitably requires a separation between the artwork and the world. Art so understood thus sets up territories and borders, the lines that define where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perceptions of space, from Japan to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m a kind of iguana. But I&#8217;m the kind of iguana that travels.&#8221; So says architect Ryue Nishizawa, one half of SANAA, the creative partnership he shares with Kazuyo Sejima, about the &#8220;Galapagos Syndrome&#8221; &#8212; the term used to describe Japan&#8217;s relative isolation from global trends and the resulting incompatibility of things Japanese with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In search of society&#8217;s true affluence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I was 40, my father died. When he died, he was working on a project for a children&#8217;s campground on the island of Naoshima. When I returned from Tokyo to Okayama to lead the family company, I inherited the project. As I lived and worked with the locals, my thinking went through a 180-degree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structure as natural philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cecil Balmond is seen as being almost divine in Japan,&#8221; says Shino Nomura, the curator of the latest exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Titled &#8220;Element: Cecil Balmond,&#8221; the show is a dive into the mind and work of perhaps the most celebrated structural engineer alive. Though not quite a household name, Balmond, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bathing in timeless memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist Shinro Ohtake discusses with The Japan Times &#8220;inside-out&#8221; buildings, private memories, public meanings and other inspirations underlying the &#8220;I Love Yu&#8221; bathhouse at Naoshima. The &#8220;I Love Yu&#8221; public bathhouse is a collaboration with architects&#8217; collective graf and is a new building, but it looks old, even a bit like a ruin. What was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escape from propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist, architect, designer, photographer, curator, writer, editor, activist &#8212; Ai Weiwei is many things. This multiplicity of means all serve a united end that centers on the existential question: What does human freedom mean in China today? &#8220;According to What?&#8221; a major solo exhibition that opened at Tokyo&#8217;s Mori Art Museum on July 25, presents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An exhibition&#8217;s critical charge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In Japan, the city consists of parts perfect in themselves, but lacking a sense of or connection to the whole,&#8221; observes curator Shino Nomura while discussing the work of Swiss architectural firm Diener &#38; Diener. Nomura sees the larger goal of the exhibition he&#8217;s curated at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, &#8220;The House and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venice Biennale&#8217;s theme won&#8217;t stop the rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Architecture is not building.&#8221; That&#8217;s the mildly provocative premise of this year&#8217;s Venice Architecture Biennale, &#8220;Out There: Architecture Beyond Building,&#8221; which runs till Nov. 23. Although outspent by the Venice Art Biennale and outshone by the Venice Film Festival, the architecture event in Venice is nonetheless the most important cultural event on the architectural calendar. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Tokyo&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo Gallery International, Shibaura, Tokyo Closes July 4 Tokyo exists as much in its images as in its tangible reality. The challenge of distilling the polyphonic experience of the city into a potent scene, however, has beguiled generations of artists. This show, entitled &#8220;Tokyo,&#8221; presents photographs of the capital spanning half a century by Yasuhiro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design turns over a greener leaf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With climate change a tangible reality, environmental issues are climbing to the top of everyone&#8217;s agenda. Design is no exception. After a decade-long party accompanying their rising popular profile and commercial success, designers have begun to sober up. At Design Tide and 100% Design, the big shows at last week&#8217;s Tokyo Designer&#8217;s Week, this shift [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization made manifest at Midtown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hooray. Another high-rise office tower. Another five-star hotel. Another premium shopping mall. Another Starbucks. And don&#8217;t forget culture. With this new development, Tokyo will show the world the richness of Japan&#8217;s civilization and society. Such is the tone of the promotion for Mitsui Fudosan&#8217;s new flagship development in Roppongi, Tokyo Midtown, which will have its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A RETURN TO THE REAL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The dominant image of contemporary architecture in Japan is one of serene simplicity: spaces that are light, bright and weightless, in which structure and materiality are reduced to the minimum. The ethereal works of the architectural firm SANAA, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, are the best known examples of this tendency, which holds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love, Peace &amp; Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Worrall  and Mark Dytham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo Design Week brings together international and local designers, manufacturers, retailers and entrepreneurs for a raft of exhibitions, gatherings and design-related events, and, of course, parties &#8212; wherever designers get together, a party is not too far away. But apart from the civilized pleasure of tripping from opening to opening in the backstreets of Aoyama [...]]]></description>
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