People Meet in Architecture: Biennale Architettura 2010: La Biennale di Venezia, Official Catalog: 12th International Architecture Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezi

Sejima, Kazuyo

ISBN 10: 8831706519 / ISBN 13: 9788831706513

Editore: Marsilio, Italy, 2010

Riguardo questo articolo

23 x 30cm near fine two volume paperback set contained within an unbroken paper slipcase. 'The 2010 Biennale is the opportunity to test architecture's numerous possibilities and to account for its plurality of approaches.' This is how Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman to direct the Architecture Biennale and winner, with Ryue Nishizawa, of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010, defines the context on which she has invited architects, engineers and artists from all over the world to reflect, leaving each one free to autonomously manage their own exhibition space, to offer a diversity of views rather than responses to a single direction. The official exhibition catalogue, in two volumes containing the projects presented by all participants - one on the exhibition curated by Kazuyo Sejima, the other on the National Participations and Collaterial Events - shows this exceptional richness and variety, aided by Mevis & van Deursen's distinctive graphic design and Dean Kaufman's photos. A heavy item, may need extra postage. Codice articolo 24390

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: People Meet in Architecture: Biennale ...

Casa editrice: Marsilio, Italy

Data di pubblicazione: 2010

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Near fine in wraps

Edizione: First Edition.

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto:

People Meet in Architecture is the official catalog of the 12th International Architecture Biennale. The idea of Kazuyo Sejima for this Biennale is to restart the discussion about architecture and its role in civilization, thus helping people relate to architecture while helping architecture relate to people and helping people relate to themselves. “With this exhibition”—asserts architect Sejima—"we are given the chance to test the various possibilities offered by architecture; to understand how it meddles with the new ways of living in the XXI century; to show that it is the output of different values and approaches. I would be very glad if, thanks to this experience, we could understand what our society is heading for.”

Informazioni sull?autore:

Kazuyo Sejima graduated at the Japan Women's University and worked in the studio of Toyo Ito.  In 1995, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she founded SANAA, the Tokyo studio that designed the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Serpentine Pavilion in London, the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando (Tokyo), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa.  In 2000 she was the curator for the Japanese Pavilioin at the 7th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale.  She has taught at Princeton University and at the Polytechnique de Lausanne and is currently a lecturer at Keio University.  She's been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize.