The project reengaged Yokohama with neither nostalgia nor negativity. With the passage of twenty years the ‘shake out’ has occurred. Following Kipnis’ exhortation that we regard the best of the last twenty years not as a history of failure (as Tafuri regarded modernism) but (given realistically what architecture is capable of affecting) a history of success. Indeed it may be argued that some of the best work being done today freely combines models of continuity with those of the discrete; the problem lies not in the models but in the obligation to justify them in purely ideological or representational terms and thus perpetuating the specious argument that continuity and discreteness are mutually opposed categories.  The project undertakes the Yokohama Port Terminal competition twenty years out based upon the accumulated knowledge gleaned from the salient speculative projects to emerge out of the competition and the subsequent trajectory of those ideas in the field.  

Collaborator: Yongsu Choung

"Yokohama Redux” by Nanako Umemoto

Highlights 

(Awards | Exhibitions | Publications)

• Yokohama Redux: Saga of Continuous Architecture, Princeton University, University of Tokyo, 2015