If you create the right environment, it comes

Takaharu Tezuka and Yui Tezuka’s architecture lies in the intuitive; it speaks to us on a profoundly deep level. It cuts through the Über-Ich that we architects are constantly concerned with and explores the most intrusive thoughts that our Es (Id) can conjure. Like their work, the lecture inspires playfulness or even goofiness. Plans and sections are skipped in favor of minute-long videos of people enjoying themselves.

What the Tezukas do is liberate children from the static norm, exploring horizons not made for society, but for humans. There is an understanding of humankind present in their work that goes beyond the usual architectural vocabulary, searching for what is truly in our nature. And while the Tezukas design loud, exciting spaces for children, their buildings for adults seem to aim at slowing us down, to calm us, and to direct our view outward, to an environment we are consuming to extinction, leaving us with a sense of longing for a home that seems gone.

The lecture provokes the question: what would an architecture that liberates adults from societal norms look like? One that embraces rather than suppresses our inner nature, in which intrusive thoughts were explored rather than hidden? I’m probably not the first to think that chrome steel looks kind of tasty.