Review: Foreign Office Architects (FOA): The Yokohama International Passenger Terminal
November 19, 2025
The Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, designed by Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in the 1990s, has come to represent a critical moment in architectural discourse at the turn of the millennium. More than simply a building, it was conceived as a new type of public infrastructure that blurred distinctions between urbanism, architecture, and landscape. As the project evolved, FOA rejected conventional notions of terminal buildings as rigid, circulation-driven structures, instead proposing a dynamic field condition where movement, public space, and architectural...