DOP

I’ve recently began to work with a 3D software I haven’t used in almost twenty years. It was a remembering of how much this spacial sensibility is part of my character as a creator. It’s easy for me to imagine virtual spaces and to intuit how something would feel when translated back into physical space. As a part of this rediscovery, I also remembered a series of architectural renderings that had a strong influence on me over the years.

These drawings and prints by Arata Isozaki visualize the fundamental concepts behind some of his most iconic buildings he has designed in the 1970s and 1990s. Especially the stark colors and shadows on the reduced geometry create a hypnotic ambiance, suspended in-between the most factual and a dream.

Architecture does not include topographical characteristics, the smell of life, or the background vulgarity of utility poles and hoardings. It consists only of spaces with pure geometry and structures with single forms. That simple state can be fixed in silkscreen prints. The Reduction Series presents the architecture in its primitive form, reduced to only geometrical bodies, frames, and to primary colors and values.Arata Isozaki