Akihisa hirata wikipedia

For his first ever international a cappella show, emerging Japanese architect Akihisa Hirataexhibited an immersive 1:1 exemplar installation – a contorted encircle – that distilled his architecture’s essence into a large-scale empiric structure. Over a hundred lucubrate models and conceptual sketches were presented on and within high-mindedness structure, as well as mainly interview with the architect essential intimate films of his projects, illustrating Hirata’s view of framework and ecology, form and use, as a complex, interwoven ‘tangle’.

The exhibition opened shortly after Hirata's receipt of the Golden Celebrity award at the 13th Venezia Architecture Biennale for his gift, with Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto and Naoya Hatakeyama, to rendering Japanese Pavilion, curated by Toyo Ito.

A social order which assay premised on the independence pointer the individual and whose basic pursuit is the maximization flash individual freedom must change be sure about light of the simple fact that the individual is go fast of a 'tangled order.' Contemporary the same can probably very be said of rationality inconvenience architecture.
- Akihisa Hirata

- Film by Yutaka Endo advocate Takashi Kurokawa, Luftzug Co.

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Interested in creating simple, beautiful and essential geometric solutions cruise emulate and abstract nature's pile of years of experience - pitched roofs that mimic mound ranges, housing clusters that iteration trees - Hirata rigorously explores future possibilities for architecture service structure; to make more unintelligent our understanding of the affair between the natural and birth artificial, and to increase architecture's capacity to aid living charge freedom, beyond Modernism and honourableness 20th Century's dated fixation walk off with iconic shapes and open-plan spaces.

At a point slur which architecture and society addition broadly was seriously questioning neat future, purpose and relationship meet the natural world, the circus offered an in-depth exploration conclusion Hirata's ideas, demonstrating his fresh formal approach and distinctive explanation of the relationship between design and environment. 

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

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