レム・コールハースらがキュレーションしている、“田舎”をテーマにした、NYのグッゲンハイム美術館での建築展「Countryside, The Future」の会場写真が10枚公開されています。OMAの公式インスタグラムアカウントが投稿したもの。 展示の公式ページはこちら。会期は2020年8月14日まで。
OMAのレム・コールハースとAMOディレクターのサミール・バンタル（Samir Bantal）らによる、2020年2月にグッゲンハイム美術館で始まる”田舎”をテーマにした建築展「Countryside, The Future」の予告動画が公開されています。会期は2020年2月20日～8月14日。展覧会の公式サイトはこちら。
Countryside, The Future, is an exhibition addressing urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). A unique exhibition for the Guggenheim Museum, Countryside, The Future will explore radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the earth’s surface not occupied by cities, with a full rotunda installation premised on original research. The project presents investigations by AMO, Koolhaas, with students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen University, Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi. The exhibition will examine the modern conception of leisure, large scale planning by political forces, climate change, migration, human- and non-human ecosystems, market driven preservation, artificial and organic coexistence and other forms of radical experimentation that are altering the landscapes across the world.
今年（2020年）のサーペンタイン・パヴィリオンの設計を、南アフリカを拠点とする1990年生まれの女性建築家3人（Amina Kaskar、Sumayya Vally、Sarah de Villiers）が主宰する設計事務所「カウンタースペース（Counterspace）」が手掛けることが発表されています。会期は2020年6月11日～10月11日まで。サーペンタイン・パヴィリオンは世界中の建築家の中から毎年一組の建築家が選ばれ設計を担当します。2019年には石上純也が設計者に選定されていました。過去には日本人建築家を含む世界の名だたる建築家が設計を手掛けています。こちらの公式サイトで他の建築家が手掛けた過去のパヴィリオンの写真などを見ることができます。
Using both innovative and traditional building techniques, Counterspace’s design will be based on gathering spaces and community places around the city, folding London in to the Pavilion structure in Kensington Gardens, and extending a public programme across London.
The shapes of the Pavilion are created from a process of addition, superimposition, subtraction and splicing of architectural forms, directly transcribed from existing spaces with particular relevance to migrant and other peripheral communities in London.
石上純也への、ルイジアナ美術館によるインタビュー動画「Creating Nature with Time」が公開されています。日本語で聞けるインタビューです。
“If things created by humans should function next to natural things, the passing of time is necessary. Only the passage of time will bring forward the kind of landscape I want to create,” says the renowned Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. Learn about his award-winning project, the poetic landscape ‘Water Garden’, in this short video.
When a hotel owner hired Ishigami to create a new garden and an addition to his hotel, the premise was that the addition should be built in a forest, and the garden in an area with meadows alongside. Because they were only allowed to build in the woods – meaning having to cut down almost all of the trees – Ishigami decided “to move all the trees from the forest and create a new forest.” Each tree was carefully relocated, uprooted and replanted over four years. They also relocated the moss that was already there, used the existing stones to make stepping stones, and integrated the water in the area: “We used everything that was already there and changed the layout to create a new artificial environment that was as close as possible to something natural,” Ishigami says. In continuation of this, 50 years earlier, the location had been rice paddies, and so Ishigami wanted to combine the rice paddy landscape with the forest landscape. Ishigami explains how it wasn’t about creating something from nothing, but rather about using the already existing environment and “letting the passage of time create a new garden. So, the concept was that the garden would take a long time to mature.”
