Toyo Ito, “What Was Metabolism? Reflections on the Life of Kiyonori Kikutake”
The Metabolist Movement in the 1960s established the foundation from which contemporary architecture in Japan…
The Metabolist Movement in the 1960s established the foundation from which contemporary architecture in Japan…
Oct 16, 2012
06:30PM – 08:30PM
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public
For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. Following the debut of his Sky House and Marine City at the 1959 C.I.A.M. (Congrès Internationale d’Architecture Moderne) Conference in Otterloo in the Netherlands,…
exhibition dates: AUG 24 – OCT 16, 2012
A year out from last year’s tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
Spring 2012
This project began from a simple idea: to explore how the latest generation of…
This project began from a simple idea: to explore how the latest generation of modeling…
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) presents the first mono-graphic exhibition on Kenzo Tange in the United States: Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzo Tange Archive. It is the first comprehensive exhibition on Tange anywhere in the world in more than twenty years.
exhibition dates: AUG 26 – OCT 18, 2009
You cannot imagine what it meant to me to come suddenly face to face with these houses, with a culture still alive, which in the past had already found the answer to many of our modern requirements of simplicity, of outdoor-indoor relations, of modular coordination,…
exhibition dates: SEP 1 – DEC 1, 2009
The Yokohama International Port Terminal disrupts the sense of monumentality that typifies passenger port…