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Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Sketches of main hall

Nara Convention Hall, Nara, Japan, Sketches of main hall

Arata Isozaki
Japanese, born 1931
1992
An energetic ink-on-tracing-paper study in which Arata Isozaki explores the form and internal organization of the Nara Convention Hall’s main auditorium, working out relationships of stage, seating, and enclosing shell.
Rapid, overlapping strokes combine plan and section in one gestural field so that a sweeping curved roof, an oval seating volume, and clusters of technical notes appear simultaneously like a visible stream of design thought.
The sheet records how Isozaki and his generation used freehand drawing to negotiate program, scale, and form, bridging conceptual invention and the practical decisions that shape modern civic architecture in Japan and internationally.
Medium
Ink on tracing paper
Dimensions
12 x 33 1/8" (30.5 x 84.1 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
149.1993
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