• Arata Isozaki (architect)
• Arata Isozaki (draughtsman)

Sketch for the Clusters in the Air Project, Tokyo

between 1960-1962

General view

- This drawing is one of four drawings by Arata Isozaki for the "City in the Air" schemes of 1960-1963. Three of these drawings are studies for the "Clusters in the Air" project of 1960-1962: a sketch showing a general view of the project, DR1987:0117, a more finished version of the same view, DR1987:0062, and a three-stage sketch showing trees becoming a forest, DR1987:0116. The sketch of trees demonstrates the principal idea behind the "Clusters in the Air" project; enormous supports (trunks) support passageways (branches) to which living units (leaves) are gradually added. The trees develope side by side, with branches of different trees joining up, creating a "forest" (Isozaki 1992, 20-23, 29). the subject of the fourth drawing, DR1987:0061, is unclear although it is possibly a conceptual drawing for the Marunouchi Project of 1963, a proposal for a "City in the Air" in the central business district of Tokyo (Isozaki 1992, 27, 29). All four drawings are executed on sheets perforated with square holes for insertion into a spiral notebook.

• dessin conceptuel

Pen and black ink

sheet: 18.2 x 25.8 cm (7 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 21 x 29,8 cm (21 nov. 2008)

DR1987:0062

• sketch

• pictorial drawing

- The t. edge of the sheet is perforated with holes for insertion into a spiral notebook. White cloth hinges and minor tears along t. edge.

signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Arata Isozaki" numbered - by the dealer, in graphite, verso, l.l.: "AI86.121" [gallery inventory number] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: "D-2"

• architecture

© Arata Isozaki