Shoei yoh biography of barack

Architectural historian Yoshitake Doi, who began teaching in Kyushu in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand as Fukuoka-based Shoei Yoh completed numerous works one after another, explores the essence of Yoh’s architecture.

In an Age Called Postmodern

There was a time when postmodernism played with fiction.

It constructed fictions and then exposed them. Architecture, fundamentally, is about constructing certain ideals.

Shoei Yoh: Architecture of Light, the Real, and Monism

Works of architecture are founded upon invented systems, ideals, dreams, ideologies—things that do not exist in the so-called state of nature. For this reason, they are conceived as fictions of sorts, for better or for worse.

Back during that time in the 1990s, Shoei Yoh said to me that it had come to the point where the only remaining possibility was to build “non-architecture”.

He appeared as a maverick to my eyes for still holding faith in the real rather than fiction.

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