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Makoto Se i Watanabe Aoyama Art School Tokyo, Japan. 1988-90

Like a mechamcal creature that just strode out of a Coldorak cartoon, this art school saves most of its visual offccts for the exterior. Its interior is generally relatively unremarkable. This type of design is typical of the speculative euphona of the late 1980s in Japan.

unusual building. Despite art apparent rejection of the formalist vocabulary used by slightly older architects like Ando, Watanabe does not seem that far in his concep-tions from the radical chaos-oriented theories of Shinohara.

Kijo Rokkaku's 17,604 m^J Tokyo Budokan, completed in December 1989, is a school of a different kind. Here it is judo, archery or other traditional Japanese sports that are taught. Rejecting traditional materials and direct reference to architectural history, Rokkaku sought his inspiration for the facade of this building in the forms of mountain ranges. His careful choice of materials and the juxtaposi-tion of the different elements nonetheless give a very Japanese feeling to this building, which is naturally heightened by the presence of persons of all ages practicing traditional sports.

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