Ryuichi Sakamoto's rain. The metropolitan highway system from Narita airport. Tokyo suburbia. The tyranny of the average urban ugliness. Terrible "orthopedic architecture" mistakes. Hard to trust Haruki Murakami here but the acid taste of Araki's madness suddenly becomes legitimate. Being exactly as intended.
“When man shall build a building, a society, a life, as himself, training his imagination to see life, the nature of the time, the place, and the hour, eager to be himself, harmonious with nature, then the individual will rise high in the communal life of a civilization. And, supreme to “all about him”, he can’t fail to make the communal life the richer for his own riches. Human values are life giving not life taking”. Frank Lloyd Wright from "Critical Writings on Architecture", 1930
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