In the mind’s eye

Chris Barton

THE ARCHITECT AS MAGICIAN: LIKE many, I was captivated by Junya Ishigami’s presentation at this year’s in:situ conference – a virtuoso display with gravity-defying tricks, such as his impossibly thin (12mm) steel roof sagging across a 90m span to create a semi-covered plaza at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) in Japan. Ishigami was a keynote speaker at the conference run by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects in February. I was particularly fascinated by the security camera footage Ishigami showed of people weaving their way through the diverse arrangement of some 305 slim, steel columns dotted throughout the 2000sqm glass-walled Workshop building, also at KAIT. So, too, was one of the next presenters, Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse in Peru, who said, “Look, we do it…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, March-April 2024

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