The two-day symposium coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong spotlighted Jacques Herzog's approach to architecture, sea preservation and material circularity.
Herzog offered a retrospective take on projects that were inspired by and respect the natural surroundings, like the award-winning but never realized proposal to transform the Marktplatz in Basel, Switzerland. As one of the duo’s first projects, it saw him and Pierre de Meuron offering different ways to remind the locals that there used to be a river running across the market square.“In those early days in the ’70s, postmodernism and deconstructive are all things that we didn’t like at all.
During a Q&A session after the lecture with Suhanya Raffel, museum director at M+, and Yokoyama Ikko, lead curator of design and architecture at M+, Herzog further explained that the reason he disliked postmodernism was “more unconscious,” because “to not like what surrounds you as a young person is quite common.
Raffel also said that this collaboration with Prada “demonstrates how the museum can be the container for this stimulation, for this discussion, for what is actually a very serious and important conversation around environment, art, architecture and design.” Left to right: Lisa Reihana, CT Low, Christian J.
To close the event, Chinese architect Yung Ho Chang shared how he uses the most common and cheap materials found in China — plastics, bricks and timbers — to design clever, energy- and labor-efficient, and beautiful buildings across the globe, such as the gray brick-clad Maison de la Chine, a new residential facility at the historic Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, as well as a series of restored historical buildings with improved internal timber structure on the banks of the...
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