The second of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture‘s Open Lectures, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto’s “Architectural Behaviorology” is now available in a full-length video on the BIArch website. Tsukamoto is one of the founding partners of Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow. His lecture was analytical and detailed, yet refreshingly lighthearted –a demonstration of what has become something of a signature style for Bow-Wow. “Architectural Behaviorology” alludes to the way buildings — just like people or climatic conditions — express certain types of “behavior” by bringing together human and environmental interactions at every scale, from a single building to an entire city.
The introduction by Dominique Boudet, French architecture critic, fomer editor in chief of AMC Le Moniteur, and early client of Rem Koolhaas (he and his wife commissioned the famous Villa Dall’Ava, in Saint Cloud, Paris) can also be viewed online.
