FUMIHIKO MAK! Se ed ee ee ee ec ezance is implied, or subtlety of expression. A building that is scaled and positioned to reveal as much about its sutroundings ‘sabout itself is shibui, and the three by Maki and Associates in this article are similarly connotative, deriving formal character sodimagery from the nature of their context. The National Aquarium on Okinawa (above, overleaf), the Toyota Kuragaike Commem- ‘save Hall (page 74), and the Osaka Prefectural Sports Center (page 78) illustrate the developing design tenets of a remarkable achitect and teacher, fusing perceptions of both the East and West with an understanding not seen since Frank Lloyd Weight, while ‘edn impetus to the contextual or inclusivist thrust of theory in the United States today. As architect Heather Willson Cass explains tnher essay (page 78) this is human experience—rough-edged, unpredictable, imperfect—given fulsome form. The only claim to ‘ompleteness” is of a kind that recalls a gesture of the great Zen master, Rikiu, showing his son how to go about cleaning the “ni garden, After hours, he chided the boy that the work was not “complete enough.” So Rikiu stepped toward a tree, shook *heanch, scaring gold and crimson leaves on the scrubbed stone paths. Fumihiko Maki is still shaking that branch, showing how iu een ae William MarlinNATIONAL AQUARIUM, OKINAWA two tanks, being sous habia, ily of the 1 tendencies and ter ing the tanks, which are viewed ‘expansive panels of frameless acrylic are comfortable carpeted lounge areas, bathed 14. music, where visitors car hibits a nges, sith the light pick up the evanescent play of marine fe within the tanks to wonder whether it ‘of human beings that thers i brought te benefit othe fish. Visitors ae fur hooled by speci exhibits in th ‘around the tanks, each concentrating on a par ticular species, set of interacting species, or Pater of biological and social behavior. This Constant cross-reference between the compre hensive marine environment and the, more lized traits within it makes fot an elec accurate depiction, engenders a more id arrangement of spectator space, and