objects
The way it has been made
The meaning of objects
Feeble and ugly
What is this static modernism?
No ordinary objects
The people we love
Interlocking
Van Gogh
The secret life of sculpture
What we are accustomed to call beautiful
Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
The Mezzanine
The Design of Everyday Things
Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
Light & Shadow
An Artwork by Kumi YamashitaCHAIR, 2014
FRAGMENTS, 2009I sculpt using both light and shadow. I construct single or multiple objects and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).
The grid and its difficulties
Criticism of the grid and its difficulties was voiced from the start. Olmsted himself noted several problems that arose from the fixed dimensions of the city’s blocks: the impossibility of producing sites for very large buildings and campuses; issues of daylighting; the difficulty of creating systems of formal and symbolic hierarchy within the field of uniformity.