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"house inside city outside house: Tokyo Metabolizing" Exhibition
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
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Ko Kitayama, Atelier Bow-Wow, Ryue Nishizawa
Metabolism, which spread from Japan in the 1960s, was based on the revolutionary concept of cities made to metabolize through the replacement of components in the same way as a machine. The face of Tokyo has greatly changed in the fifty years that followed, but more than anything, those changes tell of the steady progress of the concept of metabolism. In today's Tokyo, people and spaces are becoming increasingly isolated, but architects are suggesting new solutions for forms of housing that can reestablish relationships. This exhibition focuses on the work of architects Atelier Bow-Wow (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima) and Ryue Nishizawa, together with Venice Biennale Japanese Pavilion commissioner Koh Kitayama, fabricating half-size models of actual architecture to provide a physical scale that attempts to reveal Tokyo's distinctive urban image, one that is centred on daily life.
[Image: Atelier Bow-Wow, "House and Atelier Bow-Wow" (2005) ©Atelier Bow-Wow]
[Image: Atelier Bow-Wow, "House and Atelier Bow-Wow" (2005) ©Atelier Bow-Wow]
Schedule | Jul 16 (Sat) 2011-Oct 2 (Sun) 2011 Opening Hours Information
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| Website | http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh132/index_e.html | ||||||
| Venue | Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery http://www.operacity.jp/en/ag/ | ||||||
| Location | 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1403 | ||||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from the East exit of Hatsudai Station on the Keio New line, 11 minute walk from Sangubashi Station on the Odakyu Odawara line, 12 minute walk from exit A2 at Nishi-shinjuku-gochome Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||||
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