THE ARCHITECT AS MAGICIAN: LIKE many, I was captivated by Junya Ishigami’s presentation at this year’s in:situ conference – a virtuoso display with gravity-defying tricks, such as his impossibly thin (12mm) steel roof sagging across a 90m span to create a semi-covered plaza at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) in Japan.
Ishigami was a keynote speaker at the conference run by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects in February. I was particularly fascinated by the security camera footage Ishigami showed of people
