Impossible Architecture: Another History Of Architecture
As you look back at the history of architecture, you discover a host of outstanding concepts that never reached completion and stimulating ideas that were deliberately limited to proposals. Focusing on unfinished architecture projects by about 40 Japanese and foreign architects and artists since the 20th century, this exhibition interprets blueprints, models, films, and other related documents in an effort to envision as yet unseen examples of new buildings. These include structures, which despite being technically feasible, were never executed due to social conditions and restrictions; and proposals that placed greater emphasis on making a critical statement against existing institutions than realizing an actual building. The exhibition promises to provide an opportunity to consider visionary architecture for the future.
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As you look back at the history of architecture, you discover a host of outstanding concepts that never reached completion and stimulating ideas that were deliberately limited to proposals. Focusing on unfinished architecture projects by about 40 Japanese and foreign architects and artists since the 20th century, this exhibition interprets blueprints, models, films, and other related documents in an effort to envision as yet unseen examples of new buildings. These include structures, which despite being technically feasible, were never executed due to social conditions and restrictions; and proposals that placed greater emphasis on making a critical statement against existing institutions than realizing an actual building. The exhibition promises to provide an opportunity to consider visionary architecture for the future.
Artists on show
- Aida family
- Akira Yamaguchi
- Arata Isozaki
- Archigram
- Architects + Architects JV
- Bruno Taut
- Bunzo Yamaguchi
- Cedric Price
- Constant Nieuwenhuys
- Daniel Libeskind
- Ettore Sottsass
- Giuseppe Terragni
- Hans Hollein
- John Hejduk
- Junya Ishigami
- Kazimir Malevich
- Kisho Kurokawa
- Kiyonori Kikutake
- Kunio Maekawa
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Madeline Gins
- Makoto Aida
- Mark Foster Gage
- Mayumi Takizawa
- Pierre Jean Giloux
- Rem Koolhaas
- Renshichiro Kawakita
- Shusaku Arakawa
- Sou Fujimoto
- Superstudio
- Tadao Ando
- Takehiko Nagakura
- Taro Okamoto
- Vladimir Tatlin
- Yakov Chernikhov
- Yona Friedman
- Yutaka Murata
- Zaha Hadid
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