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context: architecture > modern

Makoto Sei Watanabe, 1952-

Watanabe's extraordinary Aoyama Technical College

I love the building shown here, a unique deconstructionist jostling of abstract forms, looking as if they were thrown together at random. It was apparently based on Japanese cartoons.

backwards: Itsuko Hasegawa