Matsuro Sasaki - Morphogenesis Of Flux Structure

Focuses on the work of the Japanese structural engineer, Mutsuro Sasaki, and in particular his collaboration with architects Toyo Ito and Arata Isozaki. This book details four projects: Island City Central Park, Kakamigahara Crematorium, Qatar Education City Convention Centre, and Florence New Station.

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What Sasaki proposes in his projects is nothing less than an engineering revolution - an overturning of traditional empirical methods in favour of new kinds of shape analysis that use the principles of evolution and self-organisation of living creatures, adapted from an engineering standpoint, to generate rational structural shapes with a computer. The resulting architecture flows and melts in structural terms - it is 'flux structure'. This publication describes the morphogenesis of the concept of flux structure through four projects - Island City Central Park and Kakamigahara Crematorium (with Toyo Ito) and Qatar Education City Convention Centre and Florence New Station (with Arata Isozaki).