Author(s)

Vladimir J. Konečni

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), a Zen-influenced modernist, is considered to be one of the most important American sculptors and designers of the twentieth century. Moerenuma Park in Sapporo (Hokkaido, Japan, completed in 2005) can be justifiably regarded as both the summation of his prior work and his swan song. In this analysis of Moerenuma Park, various aesthetic, architectural, design, and social-psychological matters are addressed. Particular attention is devoted to Noguchi’s care about the social aspects of use by visitors of the most important architectural object in Moerenuma Park, the Glass Pyramid. A comparative reference is tentatively made in this regard to I. M. Pei’s Pyramid at the Louvre (1989).

Isamu Noguchi, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo (Hokkaido, Japan), Glass Pyramid in Moerenuma Park, I. M. Pei’s Louvre Pyramid, Aesthetics in Architecture and Design, Social Psychology of Architecture and Design, Social Use of Architectural Objects

Konečni, V. (2016) Moerenuma Park in Sapporo, Japan: Isamu Noguchi’s Chef-d’Oeuvre. Art and Design Review, 4, 64-76. doi: 10.4236/adr.2016.43009.