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One of my favourite personalities at al&d, Mason White just posted a great interview with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow at Archinect. Atelier Bow-Wow are invested in the emergent logic of Tokyo and have catalogued idiosyncratic building typologies and orphaned space with their publications and used this research to inform their architectural practice.

Tsukamoto the distinction between cataloguing the city and designing it:

From our research we can see how this kind of building has been produced in the city. They emerge from overlapping different rhythms or conditions. And if we can understand this phenomena by the meeting of different types of conditions, we can also apply it into our architectural projects. We can follow the same kind of process. We cannot design a building to look like the buildings in Made in Tokyo, but we can follow their natural process of the production of spaces.

Check out the full interview for yourself

[image: detail of pet architecture # 15 - atelier bow wow]