Hello everyone.
 
How do you think about the state of architecture in the Far East(Japan,China,Korea).
I think you don't know young japanese architects yet...
 
Takaharu Tezuka have a high popularity among architectural students...
http://www.tezuka-arch.com/
 
and Mikangumi too...
http://www.mikan.co.jp/
One member of Mikangumi is French.
 
So many Europian architects work in Japan.
klein dytham architecture also work in Japan.And thay also have  popularity among architectural students...
http://www.klein-dytham.com/
 
I'd like to know about young french architects..
So Let's do a exchange of information
   
 
Thanks

thanks for this topic!!
I'd like to know why japan architects can make architecture who seem free, without rules..I explain myself: in France for exemple, when you want to build a house, you have to do with a lot of rules which teach you the maximal height, the form, the material, etc.. So you're not free.. this kind of rules doesn't existe there?? you seem to experiment things..
For young french architects, you can see for exemple http://www.nouveaux-albums.culture [...] on2004.htm

Thanks for your comment,mrowka  
 
I'll answer you.
Of course,We have many architectural law.For example,earthquake-proof(we are hit by a strong earthquake..),the maximal height,the material(for fire-proof).But I think that about the form law is more easy than French one.
 
I watched link that is about young French architects.
Very interesting project,I think  
 
Now most natable architect is Takaharu Tezuka in Japan.

I answer to beb's question in here
 
::Q from beb::
 
well... i'm a little curious i' haven't been able to prevent myself to see your profil, then the place of your meeting with naya and undertown... then your photos (in particular the shangai's one.... amazing! but there were no place to put my comment : so i do it now > man, i envy you : it's a wonderful place which unfortunately risks not  to stay too longer safe
 
::A from mamori::
 
I think Shanghai is a great city in the world.Before I have been to Shanghai,I have thought that Shanghai is the same Japanese cities.Because They are asian cities each other.But When I arrived in Shanghai,I was amazed by Shanghai city.When I watched Europe city(It's Paris) at first time,I got a culture shock so much.But Shanghai more shocking for me...
 
::Q from beb::
 
so i continue my tour and i saw your link on tezuka architects (i give it > http://www.tezuka-arch.com) and man, i'm still chilling!!!! it's amazing, wonderfull...  
 i didn't know these archi before... are you working there???  
 
::A from mamori::
 
I have never worked that office.I worked other architect office before.And that's HP is underconstruction now...
Tezuka isn't famous in Europe,but someday you'll be able to read their works in french architectural magazines.
 
::Q from beb::
 
could you tell us more about your work on the "paper church" ?  
   
::A from mamori::
 
When Kobe(japanese city's name) was hit by a big earthquake,So many houses and building collapsed..
And Shigeru Ban called to architectural students by newspaper to build "paper church" and "paper log houses" for sufferers.At that then,I didn't know about Shigeru Ban.But I sympathized with him.He said us that architects can save sufferers from housing squeeze.
So I joined it as volunteer.We didn't have many funds.and Ban used cheap paper pipes for that houses.And since workers were us(architectural students),We could build it more cheap.
 
Shigeru Ban is popular in France?
 
See u

of course Shigeru Ban san is well known in Europe!!!
 
i just find amazing that you've worked on this project, this initiative is very cool... and the fact that it was architecture students who were the workers is very interesting...
so Shigeru Ban, an international star has simpatized with you... >respect!     lol
 
somebody must know tezuka-architects... i didn't... so i thank you a huge, maomi >>> i'm still chilling!    lol
 
>>>thx a lot for your answers... i hope you'll stay longer in this forum!

I know Tezuka's project but I had forgotten his name...
This project have been published in all architecture magazines... Détail, AMC, Technique & archi...

Yes.You are right.
I had forgotten it...I watched Tezuka on L'architecture d'aujourd'hui...

I watched the web site of young french architects.
I am interesting in wonderland productions.I didn't know them...
Do they have a popularity among architectural students?  
 
Today I indroduce Akira Sakamoto.He is an  architect with minimum...
 
HP:http://www.akirasakamoto.com/index.html
 
He works in West japan.and He is older than Tezuka...
 
see u

Now the most of japanese architectural magazines do feature on chinese architecture.
Currently chinese cities are changing at amazing speed.That is just metabolism city.
 
And,till now there was nobody interesting architects in China.But now One chinese architect is noticed in Japan.His name is yung Ho Chang.I think his office's HP is reconstruction...
 
Next pics aren't designed by Chang.It was factory desinged by architects of the former USSR.But now it converted into a museum.
 
798 factory
http://798space.com/

I believe that I don't know one chinese architect.
 
The works of "Akirasakamoto" seems really superb, moreover the pics and the site are beautiful. Thanks for this link.

The works of Akira Sakamoto  is very minimum..
I think Akira Sakamoto and John Pawson and Alberto Campobaeza need to drink beer with themselves.
 
Kengo Kuma also has interesting works...
 
HP:http://ux01.so-net.ne.jp/~kuma/
I do that this link can't link intentionally

 8O  8O  
 
thanks for all these names.. Very interesting!!
The work of Akira Sakamoto is very impressive for his "purity"..

Hi.
I feel the works of Akira Sakamoto look like  John Pawson's that and Alberto Campobaeza's that.
 
Today's young japanese architect is Atelier Bow-Wow...
 
 
HP:http://www.bow-wow.jp/.

Now Aechitects are collaborating with fashion designer for their buildings.
 
A japanese architect,Jun Aoki also collaborate with VUITTON.
 
HP:http://www.aokijun.com/
 
Now why do architects collaborate with them?

We recently talked about this trend in this article http://www.aroots.org/notebook/breve437.html but sorry this is only in french. this article shows the relationship between architecture and fashion through buildings of grand architects, the Vuitton building among the prada ( Herzog et Demeuron), Chanel, (Peter Marinoà, Hermès ( Renzo Piano), Dior ( Sejima) ...and so on, for conclusion Tokyo is a great place for contemporary architecture.

Hi,AL.And thanks for your comment.
 
Yes.I talked about that article with undertow.
And he translated a part of the article for me.
 
In this summer,I went to Tokyo.And I felt It is a proving ground for architecture.
 
In past time,Japanese architects don't like to design a commercial building.
But now They cheerfully design it.I think Tadao Ando led the phenomenon in Japan.
He designed so many commercial buildings in Kobe,Japan in 1970s.
At that time,he took in urban area into a commercial building.
 
But now,Most architects who designed a commercial building design only facade.I think..

Jun Aoki was an apprentice of Arata Isozaki.
Now he is noticed as a fresh architect.

Jun Aoki's works

Hi!
I was thinking that architecture from the far east is unknown (or not well-known) in France..But, there will have a new exhibition in my town (Lille, which is capital european of the culture for 2004) on this topic..New trends of architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific..www.artfront.co.jp and www.lille2004.com (but you have to search a lot!! )And I hope that this exhibition will help us to discover east far architects!!  

 
www.artfront.co.jp
 

I think that it's very interesting for architets to do this kind of buildings.. first beause of the money (of course, theses companies are so rich, that you an use the technics you want, and make the form you want, without thinking of the price!!! )
And, then, I think that Clothes ant architecture are two subjetcs very close one from the other.. YOu can explorate the links between them and I think that it can produce a special thing..

sulat!
 
thanks for your comment,and links,mrowka
   
 
Yes.I saw that link.I felt that is interesting.And One link was writen by japanese,so I can read it.I want to know about french architectural situation,so I have waited such an information  
 
By the way,the day before yesterday,I read a japanese architectural magazine at book store.So I saw a new work of Tezuka architects.I upload that pic on here.
 
And I found that Takaharu Tezuka's text mentioned about Glenn Murcutt on Japanese architectural magazine "SD"  
That text is interesting.So I'll write on here.but That text was described by japanese.So next time I'll write.

sulat!
 
Today I tell about Waro Kishi to you.
Waro Kishi is good at designing a house on narrow location.
 
He is not only an architect but also a researcher of architectural history,about "case study house"particularly.
So we can see a similarity between his works and CSH.
 
his works look like all welded,but they aren't all welded..
 
Below is a quotation from a His book..
 
Many people have the mistaken idea that my steel-frame structure are all welded.But it's not so. There are bolted joints hidden by ceilings. But since I am a visually-oriented architect  who tries to please the eye,I don't use bolts in places that I want to showcase. Using nothing but welded joints would be preposterous. Being an architect of the second half of the 20th century,I wouldn't do something like that.Visually conspicuous parts are welded into frames in factories. The frames are then bolted together on the site.
 

Kishi Office HP:http://k-associates.com/
Kishi Lab    HP:http://www.ipc.kit.ac.jp/~warox/k-lab/

Thanks for this post.  
I don't know Waro Kishi.  
It's really interesting and the pic are fabulous.
I will try to not spend all the night on Kishi's wensite...

The link of his work with the case study house' style is really interesting.
 
This pic remember to me the "Zack House" of Craig Ellwood...
I haven't a pic of his house, but it's really similar...
A 2G exist about Craig Ellwood.

Thanks for your comment,undertow

This pic remember to me the "Zack House" of Craig Ellwood...
I haven't a pic of his house, but it's really similar...

Yes,You are right.
Kishi said on his book as following.
 
Kishi said:

In my student days,I was in fact drawn not to Mies but not Elwood.
As a student,I came across a book of Elwood's works and liked his architecture.
At the time I also liked the case study houses by Koening and Killingworth,people of that sort.
That was at the end of the 1970's,when everyone was talking about Postmodernism.
I was going off in a different direction.

Now japanese urban planner read the book written by Paul Virilio again.
I also read it now.Why now Paul Virilio again? Do you know about it?

despite of having nothing intelligent to tell here...  an interiting link.  
 
http://www.japarchi.archi.fr/03Liens.htm
 
Thanks mamori for yours. I know Waro Kishi from the El Coquis and I really love his work.

El Croquis 77 [II] - Waro Kishi  
 
i wanted to ask about Japanesse Aesthetics....the aesthetic is a very typical pasion in japanesse history, i wanted to know how you feel that know?
 
Like in the work of Waro Kishi their are still some garden and lot of work with the light and the filtration
But in general, the architecture as lost the tatami room and all this special places.
What do you think about the aesthetic in the actual Japan?