2G No. 78 JUNYA ISHIGAMI

2G Magazine7820082004Junya.Ishigami+AssociatesKAIT2House Restaurant

On Architecture. Kayoko Ota interviews Junya Ishigami / Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) Workshop, Kanagawa / Yohji Yamamoto Store, New York / Japanese Pavillon,11th International Architecture Biennale, Venice / Kanagawa Institute of Technology / Multi-Purpose Plaza, Kanagawa / House with plants, Tokyo / Polytechnic Museum, Moscow / Park Groot Vijversburg Visitor Center, Tytsjerk, The Netherlands / House for the Elderly, Akita, Japan / Botanical Garden Art Biotop / Water Garden, Tochigi / House and restaurant, Yamaguchi, Japan / Family House, Japan / Forest Kindergarten, Shandong / Chapel of the Valley, Shandong Eight villas, Dali / Cultural Center, Shandong / JINS Eyewear Shop, Shanghai / Conversation with Junya Ishigami, Hans Ulrich Obrist

The first time Junya Ishigami made himself known in Europe, with his proposal for the Japan Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, he was a young an almost unknown architect who had worked for several years with Kazuo Sejima and had not long with his studio junya.ishigami +associates, founded in 2004. In the Venice pavilion, Ishigami filled all the interior walls of the pavilion with delicate a somehow naf drawings of gardens and decided to build several greenhouses with real gardens in the outdoor gardens of the building. The following year, he finished the Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, and with only two works he was acclaimed as one of the most innovative proposals of the recent Japanese architecture. Forcing the limits of transparency and lightness in the beginning, his latest works explore in a conceptual way the relationships between the built matter and the nature, in works such as the Botanical Farm Garden in Tochigi, a multi confessional chapel in China or the house and restaurant for a chef in Japan, where the exploration of the tectonic merges with the telluric and the nature.

CONTENTS
On Architecture. Kayoko Ota interviews Junya Ishigami / Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) Workshop, Kanagawa / Yohji Yamamoto Store, New York / Japanese Pavillon,11th International Architecture Biennale, Venice / Kanagawa Institute of Technology / Multi-Purpose Plaza, Kanagawa / House with plants, Tokyo / Polytechnic Museum, Moscow / Park Groot Vijversburg Visitor Center, Tytsjerk, The Netherlands / House for the Elderly, Akita, Japan / Botanical Garden Art Biotop / Water Garden, Tochigi / House and restaurant, Yamaguchi, Japan / Family House, Japan / Forest Kindergarten, Shandong / Chapel of the Valley, Shandong Eight villas, Dali / Cultural Center, Shandong / JINS Eyewear Shop, Shanghai / Conversation with Junya Ishigami, Hans Ulrich Obrist