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• Kuma uses a modular unit at a micro scale to evoke complexity and delicacy on a macro scale.

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• Tange appropriates traditional Japanese architecture through technological advancements in construction.

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2

• Open to biological growth through architecture and mass, i.e. the founding concept behind 'metabolism'.

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• Defeated architecture is the co-existance of building and context. 

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3

• Architecture as a balance of gender through brutalism (brute strength/structure) and ornament (delicacy/decoration).

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• Architecture as experienced beyond the physical and tangible realm, and more into a spiritual journey.

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