Tsukuba Center Building
Seemingly arbitrary constellation of architectural quotes and images from all over the world. The aim was to dismantle nationalist aspirations using a disjunctive formal technique. Reversing the figure and ground in Michelangelo’s Campidoglio; transforming Giulio Romano’s ruins, reinstating Ledoux’s emergent columns and eroding Borromini’s elliptical windows. All these allusions combat the emergence of a single topos.
－Isozaki Arata
Isozaki Arata「ARATA ISOZAKI WORKS 30」 p147
