TOKYO, JAPAN.- The Mori Art Museum presents Archilab: "New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005.” The exhibition examines for the first time ever in Japan those radical and visionary approaches to building design and urban planning that, since World War II, have changed the way we think about and use the city. Organized by the Mori Art Museum and the FRAC Centre, Orl�ans, Archilab features highlights from the collections of the FRAC Centre and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In more than 220 projects by 90 architects and artists, Archilab revisits urban utopias from the 1950s, analyzes deconstructionist works from the 1980s, addresses the influence of new technology in the 1990s and reflects on the future direction of the current avant-garde.
The models and drawings are shown in four sections corresponding loosely to different decades and concerns: The Pulsating City, The Endless City, The Deconstructed City, and The Contextualized City. Curators: Marie-Ange Brayer (Director, FRAC Centre, Orl�ans, France), Fr�d�ric Migayrou (Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Centre Pompidou in Paris) and Nanjo Fumio (Deputy Director, Mori Art Museum).