Freeing Architecture, Junya Ishigami

Lightness, transparency, simplicity, and communion with nature are Japanese architect Junya Ishigami’s watchwords. In his architectural masterworks, which he compares to landscapes, he eliminates the boundaries between exterior and interior space. For the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Junya Ishigami designed an exhibition that reveals, on an unprecedented scale, his latest research into freedom, fluidity, and the future of architecture. On the occasion of this exhibition, presented from March 30 to September 9, 2018, the Fondation Cartier will publish a book retracing the genesis of the project, including mixed photographs, drawings, models, and all the poetry inherent to Ishigami’s work.

Junya Ishigami
Freeing Architecture

Co-publication: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris / LIXIL Publishing, Tokyo
English version only
Softback, 26 x 36 cm, 320 pages
150 color and black-and-white reproductions
Texts by Junya Ishigami
Price: €42
ISBN: 978-2-86925-133-5
Release date: March 2018