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During the past 30 years, Tokyo has become the apotheosis of the Japanese late consumer culture…

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. It should be fun, it…

A building has its own identity and is, in a way, timeless. It is not just a momentary creation but…

Nothing stays still, everything changes. Time is a human construction that establishes a frame of…

The term asobi, 遊び, circumscribes the concept of play in a particularly broad way by referring to…

FRAME … Time gives us an artificial security to understand our place, our location or referential…

Play: […] a particular act or maneuver in a game

Play is a voluntary activity or occupation executed within certain fixed limits of time and place…

play [noun] – recreation, amusement; an acted story, a drama; freedom of movement

to play [verb] – to amuse oneself; to take part in (games, etc.); to act in a play (to act)

SURFACE, (n.): 1. Multi-layered levels that cover other surfaces. 2. A surface is a layer whose…

MASK, (n.): 1. A covering worn on or held in front of the face for disguise … 2. A protective layer…

I did not succeed in becoming anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest…

movement (n): mobility, the ability to move or be moved … remoteness (n): disconnect from one's…

VERTICALITY (n.) lat. vertex (highest point) lat. verticalis (overhead) fr. vertical (straight…

Nothing perishes, believe me, in the whole world; but everything varies, everything changes its…

synthesis (n.): act in which two or more elements combine and create something new

急がば回れ (ISOGABA MAWARE) Japanese saying that means "if you are in a hurry, go around"

nature (n.): totality of all living beings and non-living elements that interact in complex ways…

From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise: “a dispute, wrangle of uncertain origin”…

Absence, n: the fact of someone or something not existing or not being available; a lack of…

variable (n.) something that can change, especially in a way that can not be known in advance.

(過労死 (KAROSHI) is a Japanese term for sudden death caused by overwork. The immediate cause of death…

"At first one smiles at this place which combines a museum, a chapel, and a sex shop. As always in…

‘Tokyo is a chaotic city that works perfectly’

Sign, from the latin Word signum: "Mark, Token, Signal". Originating from the Proto-Indo-European…

A minute's silence can be very long. A real minute can last an eternity.

A continuous decline had been taking place for some time, a steady erosion of standards that…

ritual (n.) repeated, always consistent, regular procedure according to a fixed order, ones…

hygiene (n.) conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease…