Manuel Tardits, architect, co-director of Agence Mikan: An invitation to travel
Kitajima House – © Mikan Agency
Lecture offered as part of Semester 4, Learning about the “Public building – space and construction” architecture project
of the Ecological Transition course
“I left Paris one day in October 1985 without a destiny; some dates are obvious after the fact. My life was reborn Japanese; I remained gone.”(Le dit des cigales, L’Harmattan, 2017)
Living and building elsewhere means looking at the new world through the eyes of the old and contemplating the old through the eyes of the new. It’s sharing two cultures; it’s opening up to differences and seeking to understand the human reasons for them; it’s building elsewhere in concrete, metal, wood, plastic, sand, salt and sugar; it’s looking at France as an exotic country and experiencing Japan on a daily basis; it’s also rebuilding.
Manuel Tardits, architect, chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, chevalier de l’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, heads the internationally acclaimed Mikan agency in Toky0 with three other architects (Kiwako Kamo, Masayoshi Takeuchi and Masashi Sogabe).
Free admission, subject to availability