Fragile Architecture
For Maison Ruinart’s Conversations with Nature programme, Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata unveils a sequence of timber installations – launched at Palais de Tokyo in Paris before taking permanent roots at 4 rue des Crayères in Reims
- Words Ayla Angelos
Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata has spent four decades reconfiguring the way we move through cities and landscapes. Working with reclaimed wood, pallets, crates and discarded furniture, he builds walkways, nests, towers and shelters that, while meticulously planned, deliberately look like they’re on the edge of collapse. In Tree Huts, his first piece in New York made in 2008, Kawamata created a series of small wooden cabins built – and appearing almost uneasily balanced – on the trees in Madison Square Park, creating a contrast between the natural world and the concrete cityscape. In Avalanche Dover Street Market, which was installed in Paris during 2024, a flood of wood spilled out of a
Still Life with a Chair
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The New Seki-Han
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Lines of Disruption
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Blackletter Revival
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Can plastic ever be green?
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Back to Milan
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The Politics of Data
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Design as Resistance
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Era of Adaptation
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Anima Issue 3
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