"Evolving Ideas", by Sou Fujimoto. Lecture
05/06/2013.
[VIDEO] Círculo de Bellas Artes. [MAD] Spain
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Following yesterday's opening of the Serpentine Pavillion, we bring up this video of Sou Fujimoto. The Japanese architect talks about the meaning of Architecture and about the relationship between architecture and nature, the two themes that he explores with his work.
Sou Fujimoto at Círculo de Bellas Artes. Courtesy of IE School of Architecture and Design.
Sou Fujimoto at Círculo de Bellas Artes. Courtesy of IE School of Architecture and Design.
Sou Fujimoto at Círculo de Sou Fujimoto at Círculo de Bellas Artes. Courtesy of IE School of Architecture and Design.Bellas Artes. Courtesy of IE School of Architecture and Design. Click above to see larger image.
Sou Fujimoto at Círculo de Bellas Artes. Courtesy of IE School of Architecture and Design.
The lecture took place last April at Circulo de Bellas Artes, in Madrid. It was organized together with IE School of Architecture, after the launching of the new Master in Architectural Design.
Sou Fujimoto's lecture, "Evolving Ideas: Primitive Future", served as a forum for students to participate in open discussions between scholars, critics, independent professionals, entrepreneurs, curators and cultural activists.
What is the meaning of Architecture? and how does it relate to nature? are the two questions that Sou Fujimoto continues to ponder on. Below Sou Fujimoto with Jorge García de la Cámara.
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SOU FUJIMOTO
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan on August 4, 1971. In 1994 he graduated in architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He established his own architecture studio, the agency Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and since 2007 a professor at Kyoto University.
He was first noticed in 2005 when he won the prestigious AR – international Architectural Review Awards in the Young architect’s category, a prize that he garnered for three consecutive years, and the Top Prize in 2006.
In 2008, he was invited to jury these very AR Awards. The same year he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) prize and the highest recognition from the World Architecture Festival, in the Private House section. In 2009, the magazine Wallpaper* accorded him their Design Award. Sou Fujimoto published “Primitive Future” in 2008, the year’s best-selling architectural text. His architectural design, consistently searching for new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.
Sou Fujimoto became the youngest architect to design the annual summer pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2013, and has won several awards, notably a Golden Lion for the Japan Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and The Wall Street Journal Architecture Innovator Award in 2014.
Photographer: David Vintiner
