Dear arcspace Members and Visitors,
During August we will not have our regular weekly features but, since I will be "On the Road" in the US, you will have a Weekly Letter from me with lots of exciting information from the many places and people I plan to visit.
There will also be occasional Headlines and maybe more!
The latest news is that Tadao Ando has accepted to design a pavilion for the Kolonihaven project when it starts its Japan tour in October. Ando was invited at the birth of the project but, because of the Kobe earthquake, was not able to participate at that time.
Ando says YES to the Louisiana Museum
The exhibition, on loan from the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, will be on view at the "Tokyo Big Sight" October 9th, 10th and 11th., before touring Japan for close to a year.
While the exhibition of models and drawings travels, the full scale pavilions stay permanently at the Louisiana Museum. Five pavilions are finished now, next year three more will be added, and the construction will continue ad infinitum.
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The Aldo Rossi, Ralph Erskine and Josef Paul Kleihues pavilions at the Louisiana Museum.
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Checking out the Kolonihaven collection.
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Waiting to be crated.
Since I remain the curatorial consultant for the traveling exhibition I will be going to Japan to assist with the installation. After the opening I will board the "Fast Train" and visit as many buildings as possible.
arcspace visitors can look forward to a pile of great features starting in September and arcspace Club Members will have a lot of new zips to download from the Image Library.
Kirsten Kiser
Editor-in-Chief
P.S. Planning my road trip across the US made me think of last summer when, on a boat with a group of friends, Los Angeles architect Elyse Grinstein, with tears of joy, read aloud the end paragraph from "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.
Here it is for all you dreamers....
"So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty."
P.P.S. This week, since this is the season for traveling, we talk about two new addition to our BOOKCASE, “best designed hotels in europe I & II”, published by avedition. They kick-off a new travel section we plan to launch in October/November.
Next up from avedition will be “best designed hotels in north & south america” and “best designed hotels in asia, australia & new zealand”, and for all Urban Nomad’s the “best designed wellness hotels” guide.
We will check some of them out...
Related arcspace links
Tadao Ando Features
Kolonihaven
arcspace Club Members
Related Web links
Louisiana Museum
Tokyo Big Sight
August 5, 2002
