ABSTRACT
The relationship between the realization and the experience of the sublime, caused by natural forces, begins with an apartment complex that Sou Fujimoto has designed for Shunzo Ueda, who needed to generate rental income on a small property he owned in Tokyo after a family medical emergency forced him to give up his regular job. The idea of the house as a city, and architecture as landscape, also helped to formulate Fujimoto's Children's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in his birthplace in Hokkaido Prefecture, which was conceived of as having both the intimacy of a house, and the collective liveliness of a small city. Paulista architecture is characterized by a brooding, rectilinear, overtly Brutalist monumentality, as seen in 2006 Pritzker Prize Laureate de Rocha's Museum of Brazilian Sculpture, in Sao Paulo. Having now survived the throes of rapid development, the generation is no longer burdened by idealism, having exchanged it for post-industrial disillusionment several decades ago.
