The Museum of Modern Art’s latest architectural exhibition, A Japanese Constellation, is neither a retrospective-like presentation nor a comprehensive look at contemporary Japanese architecture. It is, as its name suggests, a group show. The architects represented include Pritzker Prize–winners Toyo Ito and SANAA, and the rising stars in their orbit.
Organized by Pedro Gadanho, former curator of contemporary architecture at MoMA, the show explores the “radical aesthetic attitude,” as Gadanho calls it, of this group. On view through July 4, A Japanese Constellation cannot help but have a generational aspect. It opens with the work of Ito, who, at a youthful 75 years of age, is not only the senior member of this cluster but also its pedagogic leader.
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