Interviews
Junya Ishigami Interview / Junya Ishigami & Associates
10.18.09 / 2008 · Interview · Japan · Junya Ishigami · Junya Ishigami & Associates · Tokyo
Interview with Tokyo architect Junya Ishigami [1974-].
Ishigami-san worked four years with Kazuyo Sejima / SANAA right after graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. Afterwards in 2004 he established Junya Ishigami and Associates, mainly focusing on private commisions of architecture and product design.
The work of Ishigami and contemporaries like Ryuji Nakamura or Hideyuki Nakayama departs from the thesis of Sejima and pre-Sendai Mediatheque Toyo Ito -that of hardcore lightness and transparency. In times of scarcity -when compared to the konbini years of the 1980’s- a few young, post-bubble architects in Tokyo have gone back to a world of fiction. The difference between these paper-architects [or model-architects] and the ones we have known in the past -like that angly dutch man- is an awareness on how their research can be jeopardized by a premature materialization of their ideas.
This two-question interview displays Ishigami on representation and tradition, the representation of tradition and the tradition of representation.
Only on 0300TV
http://www.vimeo.com/7120161Recorded Jun 2008
Interview by Diego Grass P.
Transcripted by Luciano Vera C., Harold Rodriguez P.
Translated by Luciano Vera C., Harold Rodriguez P.
Edited by Diego Grass P.
Music by Matías Aguayo
Posted by Diego Grass P.
