Visual: Art Direction & Design: Tycoon Graphics for Graphickers, CG: Ichiro Tanida (JJD) for Graphickers, Illustration: Eco Michiba, ITL Logo Design: Tycoon Graphics.

As for the way you try to deal with the the architectural themes, I think you have a good command of various media that we, 20’s and 30’s, are familiar with. Even the way you express at the exhibition wasn’t associated directly with architecture. Are you concious of having something general in the rising generation in common?

T: No. Nothing to do with our generation. The point is how to get across… People often say like “Is this what your generation represents?”….. I’d say no. It’s just our nature.

Nature!?

T: In each generation, there’re some great people who are committed themselves to doing radical things. We just want to break through all the generations. If we invite many young boys and girls over to this garden, probably they’ll quite like it. Now, what’s more important than that is to propose the places like this garden to other conservative people in every state of life.

You must be concious of interface in comtemporary graphic design and other designs?

T: Certainly, we are concious of that.

Is that that you want to utilise those designs as a means to explore the time while utilising them as a language at once?

That’s why we have this label. ITL’s poster is designed by Tycoon Graphics, and posters for the exhibition and CD jacket of Sapporo Collection were by Shimota. In such high perceptive level, there’s something more important than the graphic design itself.

Music By Contemporary Production
Exhibition Design at Laforet Harajuku, Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo

II’d like to ask you about your future plan.

T: I don’t like the word “the end of the century”. But I really like “Grand Century”. I am sure I am lucky to be able to live in the grand century. I must do something good now.

What’s your vision to go though it?

T: Well, it’s hard to explain, but I guess architects will be doing something slightly different in the next century.

As I see many sites maintained by people working in architecture, they tend to suggest that the definition of architecture might be forced to change by a new type of envoironment that is created by densely networked society. For instance, SOHO(small office home office) represents an idea that buildings in need and use will be just for protecting human bodies and hospitals in the future, which is realised by replacing the buildings in virtual world with highly computered network. Regardless of grand century, we are at the change of civilisations.

T: As far as I’m concerned, there’ll be a wide range of opinions on architecture as well as other things. Some will advocate extreme point of view, and on the other hand, some will reject it and approach more materialistic value than now. It’s very likely that some of the orthodox cultures will be considered to be counter cultures.

E: I’d prefer using a Mac in a place like jungle to in a highly urbanised room.
At least, any extreme ideas don’t fit me at all. This is my own instict, which I’ve always been following.

ITL: Spontaineously. Right.

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