VENICE - Giardini

10th Biennale of Architecture - Japanese Pavilion. Please take off your shoes and enter the Japanese Pavilion for the exhibition, Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and ROJO: Unkown Japanese Architecture and Cities. Two unique art movements are attracting attention in Japan recently. One is the architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and the other is the ROJO (railway observation). Fujimori's unusual architecture appeared suddenly in the midst of ordinary contemporary Japanese architecture, fifteen years ago. Fujimori's desire was to get as close as possible to the time when human beings first built the artificial structures called architecture. He did so by using natural materials and plants and rethinking the basic relationship between architecture and nature. This avant-gard looks to the past rather than the future. In the present, the age of science and technology, it might be considered a reckless venture with no hope of success. However, a bit of hope is being placed on the method of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, The Method of Ledoux for Giving Reality to Images Through Illusion. Rojo Kansatssu means " roadway observation", walking the streets, noticing objects that people do not ordinarily notice, and recording them with a camera. In general members of the ROJO are interested in things that are diverted from their original purpose. You must not miss this poetic Pavilion.

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