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Rish_Ryusuke Saito

United States

Credits

Special Thanks: Kazuaki Kojima, Mitsuki Ikeda, Nancy Ai

Notes

[Bio]
Rish_Ryusuke Saito is a San Diego-based designer. He took a BEng and MEng with emphasis in Architecture in Japan. His thesis won the Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award from Architectural Institute of Japan (Selected 7 out of 180) in 2011.
After a couple of years experience as a designer in an architecture firm, he came to the US for further study and graduated from SCI-Arc with the Merit Graduate Thesis Prize in 2020. He was revealed as a finalist in the international architectural competition, Urban Confluence Silicon Valley (963 entries from 72 countries and 6 continents) in 2020.

[About Film]
This project "Equivocality" was made for Graduate Thesis at SCI-Arc in 2020.

[Statement]
“The flowers withered, Their color faded away, While meaninglessly I spent my days in the world And the long rains were falling.”
Ono no Komachi (Translated by Donald Keene)

The very lack of beauty once decay begins that we so resist

In not only ourselves but Architecture -

I call for a celebration of the loss of beauty In age and decay.

The cacophony of such Enchantment in the dialectic of beauty and decay

Entrenches my heart -

Intangible.

Until formalized. Until now.

All matter as unstable, May it begin ordered or not

Will succumb to disorder. Will decay.

So why The stubbornness of purity?

The illusion of the sense of strength?

Architecture Like nature. Like matter, does not have utility.

Even it ages and decays.

Instead of fighting nature for its beauty.

Let it. Let us Design it and embrace transiency, uselessness and their allure.

Rendering Engine

Cinema 4D, RedShift

School

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

Sources of Inspiration and References

[Film] 1) Lars von Trier, "Melancholia". 2011 [Bibliography] 1) Georg Simmel, "Georg. Georg Simmel, 1858-1918 : a collection of essays, with translations and a bibliography". Ohio State University Press, 1959 2) Leonard Koren, "Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers". Imperfect Publishing, 2008 3) Junichiro Tanizaki, "In Praise of Shadows". Leete’s Island Books, 1977 4) John Cage, "Silence". The MIT Press, 1966 5) Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful With an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste". Harper, 1844 6) Sianne Ngai, "ugly feelings". Harvard University Press, 2005 7) William Gilpin, "Observations on the river Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty: made in the summer of the year 1770". London, 1782 8) William Gilpin, "On Picturesque Beauty: On Picturesque Travel: And on Sketching Landscape: To Which Is Added a Poem on Landscape Painting". London, 1792

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