UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA
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federico soriano Textos 2013-2014
1 Atelier Bow-Wow: Tokyo Anatomy MASON WHITE disponible en http://archinect.com/features/article/56468/atelier-bow-wow-tokyo-anatomy Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, along with his partner Momoyo Kaijima, is one half of the Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-wow . Founded in 1992, Atelier Bow-wow is one the most unique practices of its generation. With Japanese architecture once again taking center stage through the work of Yoshio Taniguchi, Toyo Ito, SANAA, Kengo Kuma, and others, it is refreshing to witness a practice confident enough in itself to shun a particular style. Instead, Bow-Wow embraces a kind of accidental urban vernacular, using their research/work to chronicle the complex - and often unforgiving - logic of the city. Acting as urban detectives, Bow-wow has catalogued the agility of Tokyo’s fabric to produce radical programmatic collisions (Made in Tokyo ) and nuanced micro architectures (Pet Architecture ). These observations have figured heavily in their own work, as documented in recent publications Post-Bubble City and Graphic Anatomy . Armed with the understanding of architecture’s maneuverability in Tokyo, Bow-wow posits a practice engaged in what they call “lively space.” This is a kind of space that is willingly infected with the accidents of site and program rather than trying to control or sterilize them. 1