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Yukio Fujimoto: Violent Silence, Silent Violence Matthew Larking For sound artist Yukio Fujimoto, listening to the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the late 1960s was a formative experience. Tuning into "A Day in the Life" in stereo, he relates how the string part in the final segment of the song took his breath away, filling the room in such a way that the music took on a visible component. Fujimoto's more recent stance toward the Beatles veers from veneration to iconoclasm in "Fujimoto Yukio: plus/minus," at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. more... On Yasutaka Yamazaki Thomas Daniell Born in 1935, Yasutaka Yamazaki is an interesting figure in the lineage of modernist architecture in Japan. From 1960 to 1970 he worked for Junzo Sakakura, who had trained in Le Corbusier's Paris atelier from 1931 to 1936. Sakakura adopted Le Corbusier's Modulor (a proportioning system based on the dimensions of the human body) in his own architecture, but when he put the young Yamazaki in charge of designing a Japanese-style inn, the latter began by developing an alternative system to fit typical Japanese body proportions. This became the Yamazaki Module, which he has used throughout his subsequent work. more... Yukio Fujimoto: Violent Silence, Silent Violence Matthew Larking 1 Aug 2007 On Yasutaka Yamazaki Thomas Daniell 1 Aug 2007 Suginami, the Anime Capital of Japan Alan Gleason 1 Aug 2007 Yoko Irie: seats 28 May - 2 June 2007 1 Aug 2007 Past/Present: Masao Okabe's Japanese Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale Jeffrey Ian Rosen 2 Jul 2007 "Chocolate" Directed by Naoto Fukasawa at 21_21 Design Sight Tom Vincent 2 Jul 2007 Yuji Miyao: In But Not Of Tokyo Alan Gleason 2 Jul 2007 Yumiko Sugano 23-28 April 2007 2 Jul 2007 >> Back Issues