Article source: Binocle

Novalis noted that “The curve is the triumph of the freedom on the rule”, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti used to sing that “Straightness is for hastiness” and Oscar Niemeyer kept on explaining: “It is not the right angle that attracts me. Nor the straight line, tough, inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free, sensual curve. The curve I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the waves of the sea, in the clouds of the sky, in the body of the favorite woman. Of curves is made all the universe.”

Image Courtesy Osamu Nakamura

• Architects: Binocle
• Project: A Circle in a Square
• Location: Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, KINARE, Tokamachi City, Echigo-Tsumari region, Niigata prefecture, Japan
• Year: 2011-2012
• Architectural design: Massimo Bartolini and Lorenzo Bini
• Collaborators: Enrico Forestieri
• Client: Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
• Sqm: 470
• Photographs: Osamu Nakamura

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