Architecture as Landscape

 

We create scenery through architecture.

 

Scenery is something brought into focus by the heart, which captures natural phenomena and their beauty.

 

It is said that in ancient times, Japanese people did not adorn themselves with jewels,

but expressed their nobility with subtle and sophisticated color combinations and delicate fragrances.

 

Cherry blossoms
Photo: KOICHI INOUE

 

In a collection of poems compiled a thousand years ago,

the poems describe the spirit of valuing the intangible, rather than the richness of visible material objects.

 

Their poems also refrained from focusing on a single theme such as the rain, wind, light, flowers, or time,

and instead expressed in simple words scenery where everything exists in parallel.

 

As a continuation of the aesthetic ideas of Japanese poetry,

we create scenery through architecture.

 

Japanese apricot
Photo: KOICHI INOUE