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Arata Isozaki. (Japanese, born 1931)

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Re-ruined Hiroshima, project, Hiroshima, Japan, Perspective

Arata Isozaki (Japanese, born 1931)

1968. Ink and gouache with cut-and-pasted gelatin silver print on gelatin silver print, 13 7/8 x 36 7/8" (35.2 x 93.7 cm). Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation. © 2010 Arata Isozaki

1205.2000

Terence Riley, ed., The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002, p. 101

Haunted by the remaining destruction of Hiroshima twenty-two years after the atomic bomb was exploded there, Arata Isozaki has projected images of his megastructures onto a photomural of the razed city. In this image his constructions are also in ruins. It is as if he had rebuilt Hiroshima, and it had once again undergone destruction. Ruins provide an important metaphor for Isozaki: "They are dead architecture. Their total image has been lost. The remaining fragments require the operation of the imagination if they are to be restored."

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