CANADA Canadian Centre for Architecture 1920, rue Baile Montreal Quebec Canada H3H 256 Tel: 514 939 7000 Fax: 514 939 7020 www.cca.qc.ca SOME IDEAS ON LIVING IN LONDON AND TOKYO BY STEPHEN TAYLOR AND RYUE NISHIZAWA 14 May - 26 October 2008 The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Taylor and Nishizawa and reveals their ideas addressing the challenges of building homes in existing city environments. Due to their scale, extensive built environment, and existing efforts to grow the city from within, London and Tokyo face similar urban development issues but occupy cultural contexts in which themes of proximity, privacy, community, and public space take on different meanings and require distinct solutions. London and Tokyo provide particularly relevant ground for case studies not only due to the scale and complexity of their respective built environments, but especially for the way in which their increasing densities call for a redefinition of urban living. While facing similar issues related to growth, the two cities occupy cultural contexts in which themes of proximity, privacy, community, and public space take on different meanings and require distinct solutions. Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa have developed new ideas for living borne of their respective cultures. Their innovative residential designs challenge conventional norms and offer approaches that simultaneously shape the life of the resident and the face of the city. The exhibition is conceived in collaboration with Nishizawa and Taylor, who designed their components of the installation with original display furniture and new large-scale models. The architects’ projects are each presented in three galleries, adjacent and open to one another in order to establish relationships among their respective works and between the two. On view are original drawings, large-scale renderings, models, books, and prints by established photographers. Nishizawa’s built projects were captured by Takashi Homma, Hisao Suzuki, and Ken'ichi Suzuki, and Taylor’s work by Simon Lewis, David Grandorge and Ioana Marinescu. WILL ALSOP: OCAD, AN URBAN MANIFESTO Begins 13 June 2008 This exhibition explores the creative design process behind the Ontario College of Art and Design’s startling new building, the Sharp Centre for Design, in Toronto.