Riken Yamamoto is one of Japan's leading architects, his work is of outstanding importance in urban design; his work seeks to integrate society, to be a cohesive force for contemporary living. Riken Yamamoto: How to Make a City focuses on Yamamoto's long-standing engagement with the concept of 'cit[...]
It has been said that the Sendai Mediatheque (2000), with its revolutionary approach to engineering, marks a turning point not only in Toyo Ito's architecture but in contemporary architecture in general. Before Sendai, Ito's work emphasized structural lightness and transparency, and what he saw as t[...]