Heatherwick Studio’s works of emotion / Soulful design and architecture

 

Heatherwick Studio, Little Island, 2021, New York © Timothy Schenck

Heatherwick Studio’s works of emotion

Soulful design and architecture

16 MAY 2023, 

ALMA REYES

We are not making new buildings, but borrowing all the soulfulness from the past.

(Thomas Heatherwick (“The Science Behind our Emotional Connection to Architecture,” a+u No. 629))

The magnificent world of Shiko Munakata

 

Shiko Munakata, Mt. Hakkoda, 1924, Aomori Museum of Art 

The magnificent world of Shiko Munakata

The Van Gogh of Aomori, Japan

16 NOVEMBER 2023, 

ALMA REYES

 

"The woodcut, unconcerned with good and evil, with ideas, with differences, tells us that it consists of truth alone.”
(Shiko Munakata)

A Kyoto in Tokyo / Calmness in Kosoan Teahouse

 

Kosoan exterior © Alma Reyes 

A Kyoto in Tokyo

Calmness in Kosoan Teahouse 

16 NOVEMBER 2020, 

ALMA REYES

 

Anyone without spiritual aspirations is a fool.

(Sōseki Natsume,  Kokoro) 

The imaginary world of Jean-Michel Folon

 

Jean-Michel Folon, Untitled, Fondation Folon ©Fondation Folon, ADAGP/PARIS, 2024-2025

The imaginary world of Jean-Michel Folon

Ecology, war, space, and social culture in art

16 AUGUST 2024, 

ALMA REYES

 

I have always wanted to fly freely, to talk to the wind and the sky.

(Jean-Michel Folon), (“FOLON: Agency of Imaginary Journeys,” Tokyo Station Gallery)