Toyo Ito with Koji Ichikawa and others Meanwhile in Japan Basque Country John Ashbery's The Ice Storm

John Ashbery's The Ice Storm is an extended prose-poem by one of the most important and influential poets of our time

day by day

voices rise and drift into a keenly elliptical flow

Although the term 'experimental music' may now have be understood as referring to a genre

picturesque mountain peaks

Toyo Ito with Koji Ichikawa and others Meanwhile in Japan Basque Country John Ashbery's The Ice StormIn this new volume of the CCA Singles presenting the Meanwhile in Japan conversations, Toyo Ito sat with a group of young architects and academics to discuss how his early work of the 1970s and 1980s took a radical approach to intervening in a newly emerged consumerist culture in Tokyo. As architects elsewhere in the world sought to break through the conventions of modernism, Ito attempted to bring new significance to architecture in a rapidly