ARCHITECTURAL DYNAMICS: A Conversation with Julien de Smedt
INAX Ginza
3-6-18 Kyoubashi, Chuou-ku
Tokyo, Japan
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description:
「危機」Kiki. Crisis. The Japanese word for “crisis” combines the meanings of “danger” and “opportunity”. These twin threads of criticality and optimism weave through Agenda: Can we sustain our ability to crisis?, a book documenting a year in the life of celebrated young European architect Julien de Smedt and his architectural practice JDS Architects. A year spanning the Lehman shock and the Obama election, in which many of the assumptions – financial, social, political, aesthetic – underlying contemporary architectural production radically shifted. A year of wrenching change.
On the occasion of his visit to Japan to launch this book, LLLABO and Waseda Architecture join Julien de Smedt in a conversation about creative practice under conditions of rapid change. Borrowing vocabulary from the physics of moving bodies such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, momentum, force, collision, action, and reaction, the conversation aims to explore the experience and responses to crisis and change in contemporary architectural practice. A conversation, in short, about architectural dynamics.
- from website.
architect’s website
http://www.jdsarchitects.com/
more info…
http://www.lllabo.com/julien-de-smedt-architectural-dynamics/
all images shot with a Canon EOS 5D MKII
