Where Is Architecture?
Where is Architecture?
Seven Installations by Japanese Architects
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
April 2010
About the Exhibition
Seven Features of the Exhibition
To create "architecture," architects are expected to deal with a variety of
conditions. This requires a way of thinking that deftly balances logic, technique, and aesthetics. One might also argue that this profound sense of balance is
what has led to the international recognition of Japanese architecture. In trying to determine the special characteristics of "architecture," therefore, examining
where and in what form it arises seems more viable than simply addressing the
question, "What is architecture?"
In this wide‐ranging group of installations, including a space created out of
three types of polyhedrons, a place where a "space" is "born and dies," a
summer house that resembles an animal, a video space that presents a day in the life of an architectural model, a fragile structure, and a field with a fantastic
sense of scale, we invite the viewer to search for the architecture.
A special website provides up‐to‐date information about the architects'
installations, created by spfdesign Inc.
ITO Toyo (b. 1941‐ )
The spatial structure that Ito Toyo proposed for the New Deichmann Main Library Competition in Oslo, Norway in 2009 is a dynamic work that makes use
of three types of polyhedrons to fill and develop the entire space. Ito's
installation in this exhibition will make use of this system. And with a "wandering" display of the architect's recent projects, such as Za‐Koenji, the
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and ...
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