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Institutional Recommendation Program
update: 2019.10.7
Lys VILLALBA
| Participating Project | Institutional Recommendation Program |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | Spain |
| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 2017.9 - 2017.9 |
Purpose of the residency
The hybrid identity of Tokyo's urban space, defined by non-standard and anonymous architectures, became a focus for the world's attention in 2001 with the publication of Made in Tokyo by Atelier Bow-wow. Explored as a drawn urban safari, the book analyzes seventy architectures as metropolitan ecologies: fortuitous encounters of buildings, infrastructures and landscapes in a city where the average lifespan of a building is thirty years and change is explicitly implicit. Made in Tokyo 15th Year Update examines the evolution of these seventy architectures through a field research that revisits, redraws and rephotographs them fifteen years later, deciphering the hidden connections between their new crossovers and the social, technological, economical and political changes that have taken place in the city over the last one and a half decades.
Plan during the residency
- revisiting some of the 70 architectures that were analyzed in the book
- fieldwork research of complementary sources
- conducting interviews
