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Tadashi Kawamata

Spatial Construction

Architecture as residue

ART–OTH–KAW

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Architecture as residue

Tadashi Kawamata

ART–OTH–KAW

Architecture as residue

Index Code:

ART–OTH–KAW

Orgin:

Japan

Field Notes:

architecture as residue · community as form · temporality as design

Defining Moment:

Early 1980s — architecture as residue; space became thought

Tadashi Kawamata

(

b. 1953

)

tah-dah-shee kah-wah-mah-tah

Kawamata built a world from fragments.

Using scrap wood and scaffolding, he constructs temporary dwellings that reveal the social life of architecture.

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In his world, impermanence is structure.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Tadashi Kawamata’s work, this approach appears where temporary structures expose instability.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Tadashi Kawamata’s work, this approach appears where temporary structures expose instability.

Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Social Practice

Art operates through participation and social systems.

Observartory

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Space as question

Cristina Iglesias

threshold as environment

In Dialogue

Memory as architecture

Craft as ethics