In this video you can watch the documentation and walk through of Akihisa Hirata's first international solo exhibition, Tangling.
A social order which is premised on the independence of the individual and whose primary pursuit is the maximization of individual freedom must change in light of the simple reality that the individual is part of a 'tangled order.' And the same can probably also be said of rationality in architecture.
- Akihisa Hirata
Film by Yutaka Endo and Takashi Kurokawa, Luftzug Co. Ltd
Interested in creating simple, elegant and essential geometric solutions that emulate and abstract nature's millions of years of experience - pitched roofs that mimic mountain ranges, housing clusters that echo trees - Hirata rigorously explores future possibilities for architecture and structure; to make more complex our understanding of the relationship between the natural and the artificial, and to increase architecture's capacity to aid living and freedom, beyond Modernism and the 20th Century's dated fixation with iconic shapes and open-plan spaces.
At a point in which architecture and society more broadly is seriously questioning its future, purpose and relationship to the natural world, the exhibition will offer an in-depth exploration of Hirata's ideas, demonstrating his innovative formal approach and distinctive interpretation of the relationship between architecture and environment.
Curatorial Team:
Naomi Shibata guest co-curator
Sarah Ichioka, AF Director
Justin Jaeckle, AF Curator Public Programmes
Zofia Trafas, AF Exhibition Coordinator
Venue: The Architecture Foundation, 136-148 Tooley St, London SE1 2TU
