Architectural Creation Origin and Process

Author: Ye Xiaojian
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: In The Origin and Process of Architectural Creation, the three contemporary Japanese architects Toyo Ito, Katsuhiko Kurokawa, and Ryoichi Yamada exhibit three completely different styles and developmental directions. However, in their pursuit of free architectural creation, they share a common ground. Developing their own ideas based on memories left behind, they confront the existing material world with pure and sincere creative passion. This is a design origin that has long existed but has never been fully understood by many. It is the transformative process that people crave yet has always been hidden within data and memories—the soul of architectural design—and it is presented in The Origin and Process of Architectural Creation. Every page of this book is not merely a record, nor a simple evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of works. It strives to capture fragments of design evolution embedded in the development of design and nurtured in the thoughts of architects, thereby elaborating and analyzing.