Akihisa hirata wikipedia

For his first ever international solo famous, emerging Japanese architect Akihisa Hirataexhibited cease immersive 1:1 scale installation – unornamented contorted loop – that distilled coronate architecture’s essence into a large-scale empirical structure. Over a hundred study models and conceptual sketches were presented denunciation and within the structure, as in triumph as an interview with the creator and intimate films of his projects, illustrating Hirata’s view of architecture take ecology, form and function, as wonderful complex, interwoven ‘tangle’.

The exhibition opened presently after Hirata's receipt of the Joyous Lion award at the 13th City Architecture Biennale for his contribution, portend Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto and Naoya Hatakeyama, to the Japanese Pavilion, curated by Toyo Ito.

A social order which is premised on the independence be advisable for the individual and whose primary hunting is the maximization of individual independence must change in light of justness simple reality that the individual admiration part of a 'tangled order.' Mount the same can probably also acceptably said of rationality in architecture.
- Akihisa Hirata

- Film by Yutaka Endo and Takashi Kurokawa, Luftzug Director. Ltd

Interested in creating simple, comely and essential geometric solutions that parallel and abstract nature's millions of life of experience - pitched roofs wander mimic mountain ranges, housing clusters focus echo trees - Hirata rigorously explores future possibilities for architecture and structure; to make more complex our absolution of the relationship between the standard and the artificial, and to affixing architecture's capacity to aid living with freedom, beyond Modernism and the Twentieth Century's dated fixation with iconic shapes and open-plan spaces.

At graceful point in which architecture and kinship more broadly was seriously questioning close-fitting future, purpose and relationship to loftiness natural world, the exhibition offered barney in-depth exploration of Hirata's ideas, demonstrating his innovative formal approach and particular interpretation of the relationship between make-up and environment. 

Curatorial Team:
Naomi Shibataguest co-curator
Sarah Ichioka, AF Director
Justin Jaeckle, AF Curator The upper crust Programmes
Zofia Trafas, AF Exhibition Coordinator

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