| 4x4: Apartment Avant-Garde 4x4: Apartment Avant-Garde � Britain�s first fully interactive DVD architecture exhibition aims to present layers of Japanese culture, to reveal �real� actual lives of younger Japanese architects (30 to 50 years old), and the urban conditions in which they live and operate. The exhibition is being shown simultaneously at four UK venues: Cube, RIBA Architecture Gallery, Bristol Architecture Centre and the Lighthouse. Sixteen of Japan�s leading architects have been invited to present their own work through specially commissioned recordings of their individual homes and workspaces. Traditional Japanese tatami mats cover the gallery floor and visitors are invited to remove their shoes, sit down and interact with the DVD recordings on individual monitors using Sony Playstation 2s. The architects in the exhibition include: Shigeru Ban, famous for his �paper tube� structures and projects such as his Case Study House 10, in which four personal rooms move around on castors; Kengo Kuma, co-curator of the exhibition, who designed the amazing Water/Glass House at Atami; Masaharu Takasaki, whose buildings such as his Kihoku Astronomical Museum, display extraordinary morphologies and Kazuyo Sejima, whose recent work includes her exquisite Small House in Tokyo. To see the online 4x4 picture album please go to: www.chiizu.com/en/Album/Cover.asp?A=2708 As a collective exposure of architectural ideas all 16 Japanese architects will be in England as part of the event and four of the sixteen architects will present lectures in Manchester. For more information on the dates and times: click here for The Cube Gallery, Manchester. www.cube.org.uk/exhibitions/new_ |
Sponsor This exhibition has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of the SONY Corporation of Japan. |
| Catalogue A fully illustrated catalogue with a DVD is available at Bookart link to infomation www.cube.org.uk |
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| Dennis Sharp Architects |
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