Yokohama Project-Foreign Office Arch. (Paperback)

An interesting building usually has an equally interesting tale to tell, an epic embedded in the organization of the matter used to create the structure. This book recounts the story of the Yokohama P...

An interesting building usually has an equally interesting tale to tell, an epic embedded in the organization of the matter used to create the structure. This book recounts the story of the Yokohama Project, an inventive, undulating, grass-covered ferry terminal that was never meant to be built. Asked to produce some material for an architectural journal, London-based architects Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo of Foreign Office Architects decided on three competitions through which to explore new design ideas. When they actually won the second competition, for the Yokohama International Port Terminal, in Yokohama, Japan, their plans suddenly changed. The Yokohama Project presents a textual and visual replica of the way their winning building was developed, over eight years, by FOA and a huge team of engineers and researchers in Tokyo and Yokohama. Unlike the typical architectural book, this one offers no critical texts and no theoretical analyses of the structure; instead, it aims to rediscover the linearity of the buildings creation.

An interesting building usually has an equally interesting tale to tell, an epic embedded in the organization of the matter used to create the structure. This book recounts the story of the Yokohama Project, an inventive, undulating, grass-covered ferry terminal that was never meant to be built. Asked to produce some material for an architectural journal, London-based architects Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo of Foreign Office Architects decided on three competitions through which to explore new design ideas. When they actually won the second competition, for the Yokohama International Port Terminal, in Yokohama, Japan, their plans suddenly changed. The Yokohama Project presents a textual and visual replica of the way their winning building was developed, over eight years, by FOA and a huge team of engineers and researchers in Tokyo and Yokohama. Unlike the typical architectural book, this one offers no critical texts and no theoretical analyses of the structure; instead, it aims to rediscover the linearity of the buildings creation.