Shoei yoh biography of albert
Archaeology of the Digital: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Chuck.
Shoei Yoh started out on his own in when he founded his design firm in Fukuoka at the age of His first independent project was the Caf....
WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Architect Shoei Yoh began his creative career as an interior designer in the 1970s.
In 2019, he donated materials from his professional archive to Kyushu University, where they are currently being cataloged into the Kyushu University Shoei Yoh Archive. A selection of Yoh’s materials was also added to the collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) following its 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital.
The ambitious architect, whose pioneering works in wood and digital design have been gaining renewed appreciation, sought to create designs that express “light as a natural phenomenon”. This seven-part essay series written by researchers in Japan and Canada delves into Yoh’s archival materials to contemplate the light that the architect aimed to capture.
Light as a Natural Phenomenon
There has been growing momentum within and beyond Japan to reevaluate the work of architect Shoei Yoh, who was a p