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Street Snap #40 Maki Fumihiko and Spiral – A Place Where Art Lives, Aoyama with GR IV

I visited the exhibition “Maki Fumihiko and Spiral: A Place Where Art Lives” held in Aoyama, Tokyo.
The exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversary of Spiral and the 60th anniversary of Maki and Associates, founded by architect Fumihiko Maki.

The venue itself was Spiral, where original concept drawings, models, and blueprints from the early design stages were on display, many shown to the public for the first time. Spiral is one of Maki’s representative works, and I have visited this building many times, as it stands in the heart of Aoyama. Yet seeing an exhibition about the building itself in that very space was an experience that felt both natural and profoundly luxurious.

Inside the architecture that gently draws the bustle of the city into its interior, I captured the atmosphere, where architectural ideals and reality meet, with my GR IV.

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東京・青山で開催されている「槇文彦とスパイラル – アートの生きる場所」展を訪れた。 この展覧会は、スパイラルの40周年と、槇総合計画事務所の創業60周年を記念して開催されている。

会場はスパイラルそのものであり、建築構想段階のオリジナルドローイングや模型、図面など、初公開となる貴重な資料が展示されていた。スパイラルは槇文彦を代表する建築のひとつで、東京・青山の中心に建つこの建物には、これまでにも何度も訪れたことがある。しかし、その建築自体を題材にした展覧会を、同じ空間の中で見ることは、これ以上ないほど自然で贅沢な体験だった。

都市の喧騒を緩やかに建築の内部へと引き込むその空間の中で、建築の理念と実体が交差するひとときを味わいながら、GR IVでその空気感を記録した。(→noteで詳細を読む

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Location: Daikanyama, Shibuya, Tokyo

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All photos in this article were taken with a RICOH GR IV and edited in Lightroom.

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