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Kyoto postcard

Kyoto postcard

Although this trip to Japan, masterly organised by @leafluberon, was very much centred on indigo, textiles and crafts, one cannot decently go through Kyoto without paying a visit to some of the admirable temples scattered throughout town Fushimi Inari-Taisha. A sanctuary for the Inari (fox) kami with a path to the top of the mountain...
Abbaye du Thoronet

Abbaye du Thoronet

The « jewel » of Cistercian abbeys. Built between 1160 and 1230, Le Thoronet Abbey, together with Silvacane and Sénanque, is one of three Cistercian abbeys in Provence. In danger of falling into disrepair after the French Revolution, restoration work began on this masterpiece in 1841. An example for contemporary architecture. Generations of architects were inspired by the...
Sur la route du Tokaido @ Musee Guimet

Sur la route du Tokaido @ Musee Guimet

It seems as I haven’ really come back from Japan… keep looking for indigo everywhere! On a busy day in paris, I managed to stop at the Musee Guimet to catch an exhibition showcasing a flurry of etchings from the famed Tokaido route. The Tokaido is the east and most famous of the Gokaido routes. It started...
Ici. Jean Pierre Raynaud. MAMO Marseille

Ici. Jean Pierre Raynaud. MAMO Marseille

Ici, 2017 Cuve au mâchefer, Cuve au cailloux blancs, Cuve aux cailloux blancs et trou d’homme, 1968 Autoportraits, 1980-86 Sans titre, 1993 Sens interdit, 2009         And also, La Maison de jean Pierre Raynaud, a 31 min movie by Michelle Porte … and finally a bit of blue sky and citée radieuse to...
Rosa Barba. Registro de transito solar. Museo Reina Sofia. Parque del retiro, Palacio de Cristal

Rosa Barba. Registro de transito solar. Museo Reina Sofia. Parque del retiro, Palacio de Cristal

Rosa Barba, Solar flux recording
Daniel Buren. L'Observatoire de la lumière. Fondation Vuitton

Daniel Buren. L’Observatoire de la lumière. Fondation Vuitton

Dialogue between Frank Gehry’s architecture and Daniel Buren’s instalation, on an almost sunny Parisian day..
Design Museum, London

Design Museum, London

The  has recently moved to it’s new venue and iconic 60’s landmark, the ex- Commonwealth Institute. Refurbished by John Pawson Himself, it is, unsurprisingly awesome..    A couple of shots from the free permanent exhibition. Clearly a must do while in London!
La règle et l'intuition, Tranquadi, Abbaye de Montmajour

La règle et l’intuition, Tranquadi, Abbaye de Montmajour

The exhibition is also a good excuse for revisiting this imposing Abbey and detailing it’s fantastic medieval capitals           
Venice Biennale, part 2: Giardino

Venice Biennale, part 2: Giardino

  German pavilion: making heimat, Germany, arrival country. Four large openings where made in the German pavilion to signify Germany’s openness towards refugees: the German pavilion will be literally opened for the duration of the Biennale (the Venice monument preservation board having accepted the opening for that duration).  The exhibition analyses the condition for making Heimat,...
Venice Architecture Biennale: Reporting from the front. Part 1: Arsenale

Venice Architecture Biennale: Reporting from the front. Part 1: Arsenale

Alejanadro Aravena, curator of the 2016 International Architecture Biennale: “REPORTING FROM THE FRONT will be about sharing with a broader audience, the work of people who are scrutinizing the horizon looking for new fields of action, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and the participation of communities. And simultaneously it will be about presenting examples where...
Serpentine Gallery, London

Serpentine Gallery, London

Serpentine Pavilion Architect’s Statement For the Serpentine Pavilion 2016, we have attempted to design a structure that embodies multiple aspects that are often perceived as opposites: a structure that is free-form yet rigorous; modular yet sculptural; both transparent and opaque; both solid box and blob. We decided to work with one of the most basic...
Francis Towne's watercolour of Rome @ British museum

Francis Towne’s watercolour of Rome @ British museum

Just back from Rome, so that was a perfect match ;-)… Francis Towne painted them in 1780-1781, but many do still look very familiar in the eternal town…