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May 5, 2006
Japanese Architects Up On the Roof
Q. When do you hire an architect?
A. When you want to have lunch on the roof.
That's the request one Japanese family had for a Tokyo husband-and-wife* team of architects.
Now the family has a very wide, flat but slightly inclined wooden roof that overlooks a mountainscape and valley. Perfect viewing with Kirin and a bento.
The "roof house," as they call it, is in Hadano, Kanagawa.
Tezuka Architects got a packed audience at Henry Art Gallery last night as they described how easygoing their clients were. The kitchen was still under construction when the architects were invited for lunch, so they ordered in.
Or rather, up.
Yui Tezuka said a Pizza Hut guy came on his bike, and wanted to know how to deliver. "We said, climb the ladder and come up on the roof. And he said, where do I leave my shoes. And we said, you can leave them anywhere you like."
It's not impossible to go up to the roof here in Seattle. I hear sometimes landlords open them for July 4 barbecues. I've been on rooftops twice since I got here. Both times I got square lectures on how dangerous it is and was gingerly chaperoned down.
*The person who introduced the couple was off on one name. He was corrected:
T: My name is Takaharu, not Takahiro.
A: Ouch.
Posted by Dipika at May 5, 2006 3:09 PM
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