Kengo Kuma is an internationally recognised Japanese architect.
At the Swedish Museum of Architecture there is an exhibition with some of Kuma's works focusing on the relations between idea and construction, material and form, aspects intimately linked in his architecture.
The materials are plastic, bamboo and paper.
I found some of his works interesting but they were - as Aurore pointed out - very much related to the architecture of the 1930:s.
We found traces from the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund among others.
'Älvmaggedon' is a word were one combine the word and meaning of 'Armageddon' ('Harmageddon') - mentioned in Revelations 16:16 as the last battlefield when Jesus and his angels and Satan and his demons meet for the last settlement - and the Swedish word Älv wich means (small) river.
This exhibition deals with the global climate problems and what architecture and social planning possibly can do to help up the situation. There were lots of information around global warming, for example the fact that there are more than 50 million environmental refugees in the world. As always when one discuss problems from a statistic point of view, like in this example, there are different figures presented, depending on who you ask. This was a small exhibition concerning a wast subject.
After this we continued taking a more detailed look at 'Africa Remix' but this exhibition is something I've written about before why I don't give you a detailed revue.
Aurore missed some of her favourite pieces of art, displayed at Centre Georges Pompidou but not here.
She saw 'Africa Remix' two years ago in Paris.
(Copyright photo great bamboo taken from: http://dudye.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/greatbamboo.jpg)
(Foto 'Älvmageddon' kopierat från: http://www.arkitekturmuseet.se/utstallningar/alvmageddon/INDEXcapybar.jpg)
At the Swedish Museum of Architecture there is an exhibition with some of Kuma's works focusing on the relations between idea and construction, material and form, aspects intimately linked in his architecture.
The materials are plastic, bamboo and paper.
I found some of his works interesting but they were - as Aurore pointed out - very much related to the architecture of the 1930:s.
We found traces from the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund among others.
This exhibition deals with the global climate problems and what architecture and social planning possibly can do to help up the situation. There were lots of information around global warming, for example the fact that there are more than 50 million environmental refugees in the world. As always when one discuss problems from a statistic point of view, like in this example, there are different figures presented, depending on who you ask. This was a small exhibition concerning a wast subject.
After this we continued taking a more detailed look at 'Africa Remix' but this exhibition is something I've written about before why I don't give you a detailed revue.
Aurore missed some of her favourite pieces of art, displayed at Centre Georges Pompidou but not here.
She saw 'Africa Remix' two years ago in Paris.
(Copyright photo great bamboo taken from: http://dudye.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/greatbamboo.jpg)
(Foto 'Älvmageddon' kopierat från: http://www.arkitekturmuseet.se/utstallningar/alvmageddon/INDEXcapybar.jpg)
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