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Naomi Pollock, FAIA

Contributing Editor Naomi Pollock, FAIA, is the author of Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook and the editor of NUNO: Visionary Japanese Textiles.

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Tsuruoka House

Design Vanguard 2023: Kiyo Takeda Architects

Tokyo

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

June 1, 2023

For the young Tokyo architect, who worked under Kengo Kuma for a decade, integrating natural elements with concrete, glass, and steel has become second nature.

Ishinomaki Cultural Center

Sou Fujimoto's Multifaceted Cultural Center Puts a Japanese Town on the Road to Recovery

Ishinomaki, Japan

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

April 18, 2023

Sou Fujimoto builds a community hub using familiar forms for a Japanese town devastated by the 2011 earthquake and Tsunami.

Ueno Toshogu Shrine Pavilions

Two Intricate Structures by Hiroshi Nakamura Enhance the Experience of a 17th-Century Shinto Shrine

Tokyo

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

March 17, 2023

The Shrine Amulet Place of Conferment and a Meditation Pavilion create a spiritual inner approach to the Ueno Toshogu Shrine.

Digesting Metabolism

A New Volume Provides Food for Thought on Metabolist Architecture in Japan

Review: Digesting Metabolism: Artificial Land in Japan 1954–2202 by Casey Mack

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

January 30, 2023

As opposed to Modernism’s swapping of old for new, Metabolism promoted “replacement as an ongoing process.”

Yashima Mountaintop Park

Takashi Suo's Sinuous Pavilion Snakes Around its Mountaintop Site in Japan

Takamatsu, Japan

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

December 15, 2022

Takashi Suo crafts a dramatic mountaintop attraction clad with scaly stone shingles to revitalize an abandoned but treasured landscape in Japan.

Ube House and Restaurant

Junya Ishigami Unearths the Beauty of Building Below the Surface

Ube, Japan

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

December 13, 2022

The Tokyo-based architect digs deep to create a hybrid house and restaurant for an intrepid entrepreneur in Japan.

Zen Wellness Center.

Snapshot: Shigeru Ban Sets a Zen Wellness Center on Japan’s Awaji Island

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

October 31, 2022

This center for the learning and practice of meditation and yoga on Awaji Island was designed to uplift both body and soul.

Hungarian House of Music.

Sou Fujimoto Melds the Hungarian House of Music with its Natural Surroundings

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

September 15, 2022

Under a hovering roof, Sou Fujimoto’s House of Music embraces the Budapest park it sits within.

Ukrainian refugees in Poland

In Poland, Shigeru Ban Deploys Paper Partitions to Help Ukrainian Refugees

Ban’s modular system was used extensively following Japan’s 2011 earthquake

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

March 24, 2022

Ban’s system, used extensively following Japan’s 2011 earthquake, has now been installed in two shelters—with more planned across Eastern Europe.

Bocconi University.

Bocconi University by SANAA

Milan

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

November 1, 2021

SANAA meshes a sinuous cluster of gossamer buildings into the rigid urban plan of Bocconi University’s campus in Milan.

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