The exhibition- laboratory Kenchiku Architecture presents the crossed proposals of twelve Japanese and French agencies of architecture on the metropolises of Paris and Tokyo.
Rather than approach the architecture and the city under a programmatic angle (individual house, building of housing, offices, etc.) or functional, Kenchiku Architecture questions contemporary and transverse themes: limits, materiality, opening, identity, division and forms, to comprehend better the stakes and the complexity of the city.
The Japanese Pavillon of the 12th international biennial event of architecture of Venice " Tokyo Metabolizing " confronted, in introduction, three cities: Paris, " City of monarchism ", New York " City of capitalism ", Tokyo " Metabolizing city " to express their formal specificities. Young police commissioners of Kenchiku Architecture, Benjamin Aubry and Shinichi Kawakatsu (founders of galleries - lab RAD Kyoto and Paris) leave this analysis and try to move closer to the cultures and to cause exchanges. Both workshops and of numerous discussions in binomials, in Tokyo and in Paris in May, 2013, allowed the architects to question the questions of the re-use and the sustainability, with regard to the life expectancy so short of the Japanese constructions, to analyze the space and the individual constructions, to reveal places badly considered in the unsuspected potential to transform them into opportunities of to live together, infrastructures of the ring road(peripheral) in the district Yanaka.
For Benjamin Aubry and Shinichi Kawakatsu the proposals of twelve agencies show that the differences which preexisted formerly between both metropolises Paris and Tokyo become blurred, cross, dissolve. "Of course, we cannot aspire as far as both cities are identical: their History, their geography as their culture, continue to register their differences and base their peculiarity, their wealth; but these parallel contexts, these common objects, the profusion of images, the link of the lifestyles, the correlation of the crises or still the standardization of the architectures raise the question of an appropriate identity to the architects of young generation".
Kenchiku Architecture tends to reveal the emergence of French and
Japanese architects who share common challenges and problems of imagination of
cities tomorrow.
>> Round table with the French and Japanese agencies of
architectureCome to meet 12 French and Japanese agencies of architecture
presented within the framework of the exhibition" Paris Tokyo. Kenchiku
structure " and exchange with them on the metropolis of Paris and Tokyo
The conference will be followed by the projection at 4:30 pm of the documentary
" intercalary spaces " realized by Damien Faure who comprehends the
city of Tokyo in its entirety explores it in the interstice.
