"Tsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect born in 1979 in Tokyo and based in Paris, where he founded ATTA - Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in 2006. Working across cultural, institutional, and landscape-related projects, Tane has developed an architectural approach that positions memory as a fundamental design driver. In his interview with Louisiana Channel, filmed in his Paris studio, Tane reflects on architecture as a discipline of observation and thought, arguing that meaningful design emerges from carefully reading the traces embedded within a site."
"Critiquing modern planning strategies that treat sites as neutral and interchangeable, he emphasizes that every place holds layers of memory shaped by past lives, cultures, and transformations. Drawing parallels with archaeological excavation, Tane describes design as a process of digging, sometimes literally, often conceptually, to uncover what has not been written or formally recorded. This research-based approach combines historical, scientific, and cultural analysis with visual references, allowing architecture to emerge from the accumulated memory of a site rather than from predetermined formal agendas."
Tsuyoshi Tane situates memory as a primary design driver and treats each site as an accumulation of physical, cultural, and emotional traces. Architecture functions as a discipline of observation, thinking, and creative connection between perception and production. The Archaeology of the Future methodology looks backward to project forward by uncovering layered past lives, cultures, and transformations. Design operates as excavation—literal or conceptual—to reveal unwritten or unrecorded elements through historical, scientific, and cultural research and visual references. Space is framed as infinitely reproducible while place remains singular and irreplaceable, guiding context-specific, research-based interventions over predetermined formal agendas.
Read at ArchDaily
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]