Media Facade Research

1 After Deconstructivism 1988-92

1.3A A New Paradigm P.23-24

Toyo Ito, Tower of the Winds, Yokohama, Japan
"With the Tower of the Winds, Ito creates an evanescent building, the appearance of which varies in relation to the conditions of its context, based on the diktats of a new poetics founded on transformation and lightness. It is a structure that, once again using electronic sensors, transforms the air, sounds and noises of the city into shifting patterns of light."(P.24 Wiley, 2008)

"It is from Marshall McLuhan, the genial Canadian media researcher, that Ito takes his reflection on the centrality, in a society based on both electronics and information, of the meaning of the tactile and the importance of the skin: a sensible epidermis that wraps buildings and allows for interaction between the domestic environment and urban space, absorbing lights, sounds and flows and returning them as images and vital tensions." (P.24-25 Wiley, 2008)

Project completed in 1986

Book:-
New Directions in Contemporary Architecture:
Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi

Copyright(c)2008 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England
ISBN 978-0-470-51889-2 (hb)