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Seeding Change: Visionary Timber Architecture at Hooke Park, 1981–2001
Edited by Kate Davies and Anna Lisa Reynolds
Dogma: 11 Projects
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
AA Agendas – Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion
Edited by Alan Dempsey and Yusuke Obuchi
Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest
Toyo Ito
Architecture Without Content
Edited by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac, Giovanni Piovene, Dries Rodet and Andrea Zanderigo
AA Agendas – London +10
Edited by Carlos Villanueva Brandt
Any Part, Any Form
Radim Peško
Architecture Words 11 – The House of Light and Entropy
Alessandra Ponte
Forms of Inquiry Annex
Edited by Zak Kyes and Capucine Perrot
Snowing in the Supercomputer
Unknown Fields
Beyond Entropy
Edited by Stefano Raboli Pansera
O–14: Projection and Reception
Reiser + Umemoto. Edited by Brett Steele
Architecture Words 9 – Tectonic Acts Of Desire And Doubt
Mark Rakatansky
Architecture Words 12 – Stones Against Diamonds
Lina Bo Bardi
Enabling – The Work of Minimaforms
Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos
Maelfa
Sean Edwards and Sam Jacob
Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection
Jan Turnovsky
AA Book 2023
Edited by Ryan Dillon and Anna Lisa Reynolds
AA Agendas – Little Worlds
Edited by Natasha Sandmeier
AA Book 2024
Edited by Ryan Dillon and Anna Lisa Reynolds
Third Natures
Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda
High Strange
Unknown Fields
Small Architecture/Natural Architecture
Kengo Kuma
AA Agendas – Mediating Architecture
Edited by Theo Lorenz and Peter Staub
God & Co - François Dallegret - Beyond the Bubble
Edited by François Dallegret, Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver
The Breastmilk of the Volcano
Unknown Fields
51N4E: Double or Nothing
AA Agendas – Articulated Grounds: Mediating Environment and Culture
Edited by Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee
Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
Edited by Samantha Hardingham
Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The Work of Zoe Zenghelis
Hamed Khosravi

Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest

Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest

Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest

Toyo Ito

AA Publications

This eighth instalment in the Architectural Association’s widely acclaimed Architecture Words series publishes for the first time in English a collection of architectural writings and essays by the prominent Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Born in 1941, Ito is central to a new generation of architects that emerged in Japan in the wake of the radical Metabolist group (and its proponents including Kisho Kurokawa and Kiyonori Kikutake, for whom Ito worked for a number of years in his early career). Ito has synthesised the experimental architectural language of Metabolism with his own distinct design sensibility, first evidenced by his Aluminium House, White U and Silver Hut house. This architecture has recently developed a more dramatic formal adventurousness with buildings including the Sendai Mediatheque, Mikimoto building, Tama Art University library and Taichung Metropolitan Opera House.

The texts in this collection cover almost exactly 40 years of writing and feature famous essays as well as previously untranslated writings that shed new light on Ito's relationship to evolving patterns of architectural thinking and design.

9781902902906, 2011
11 × 18cm, illustrated, 188pp, paperback

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