4月18日朝、本展会場の新潟市美術館エントランスで、池田博文氏（建築展新潟実行委員長）篠田明氏（新潟市長）、北川フラム氏（新潟市美術館長）によるミニトークが開催され、「ヨーロッパ・アジア－パシフィック建築の新潮流2008-2010新潟展」が始まりました。
当日はこのミニトークに始まり、池田氏を中心とする地元建築家による実行委員会メンバーによるセッションの第1回「建築の現在」、建築家・曽我部昌史氏によるレクチャー「地域の活動と建築」が開催された他、実行委員会と学生等による「竹のあかり」が夜の美術館を幻想的に飾り、終始賑やかな１日となりました。

We are pleased to announce that “New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2008-2010” will be held at Niigata City Art Museum from April 18 to May 10, 2009.
Niigata is the second city that will host the exhibition following Tokyo, and will be the first city in Japan involved in this project except for Tokyo.
In Niigata, an executive committee has been established by local architects, and organizes an exhibition entitled “Architecture Today in Niigata” in conjunction with the New Trends exhibition. This is co-organized by Niigata City Art Museum and the local architects to present the urban planning of Niigata in relation to international trends in architecture as well as to create an opportunity to think about the future of Niigata with the citizens.
They will organize a series of lectures by Toyo Ito, the Commissioner, Masashi Sogabe and Nobuaki Furuya, the architects who participated in the previous edition, as well as talk sessions by local architects at every weekend.
Please enjoy these challenging programs!

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2009年4月18日－5月10日まで「ヨーロッパ･アジア･パシフィック建築の新潮流2008-2010」が新潟市美術館にて開催されます。
昨年末の東京展に続く2番目の開催地となる新潟市は、国内では初めて東京以外で本展を開催する都市となります。
新潟展では、地元新潟の建築家による実行委員会が立ち上がり、独自の企画展示「新潟の建築の現在（いま）」を同時開催します。これは、新潟市美術館と新潟市の建築家の方々が連携し、世界の建築の新潮流とともに、新潟のまちづくりを紹介し、市民とともに未来の新潟を考えるきっかけとなる場をつくろうと企画したものです。
会期中には関連イベントとして、コミッショナーの伊東豊雄、これまで建築の新潮流展に参加された建築家、曽我部昌史、古谷誠章の3氏を招いてのレクチャーや、新潟市の建築家がそれぞれの思いを語り合うセッションも毎週末開催される予定です。

世界の建築界の最新の動きとともに、新潟の建築家による新潟のまちづくりを市民の皆さんと共に考えようという試みをどうぞお楽しみください。

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On the 5th December, 2009, the fifth and final series of “New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific” was launched at Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, with the attendance of 150 guests. The opening reception marked the beginning of the final phase of a decade-long project that has been organized since 2001. Mr. Hakuo Yanagisawa, parliamentarian and the Chairman of the Japan Committee, and Mr. Hugh Richardson, Ambassador of European Union to Japan, made an opening remark and appreciated the efforts of the organisers, the Commissioners, the host cities, and the participating architects. The commissioners, Sir Peter Cook and Mr. Toyo Ito, as well as all 15 groups of architects came together to the Tokyo opening. It was the first time in the New Trends history that all the participants assembled.

On the next day, a symposium was held all day long. Sir Peter Cook made a key-note lecture on “new trends” in architecture and his update projects. He pointed out the international network of elitism in architectural education. Now that architects study and work beyond borders, there are rather common points than differences among them, while they show some localities and specialties. Sir Peter’s presentation with a dramatic gesture conveyed his incessant curiosity and love for architecture to the audience. The participating architects were grouped into four sessions, which were moderated respectively by the Japanese architects who participated in the previous editions: Kazuhiro Kojima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow Wow), Masashi Sogabe (Mikan) and Nobuaki Furuya. For each session, the architects including the moderator made a 10-minute presentation on their own work, which were followed by lively discussions. The styles of their presentations showed a great variety and represented their approach to architecture in a sense. After four sessions, Prof. Hiroshi Hara, who acted as the Commissioner of the 3rd edition, made a special presentation on the projects which had not been realized in his nearly half a century career. The accumulation of his unrealized projects was overwhelming, and taught us that the architect always dreams architecture in the real.
As the Commissioner, Mr. Ito concluded the symposium with comments on the presentations and discussions that were made all that day. He was impressed that architecture has been more liberated and freer. Many architects want to create architecture, but at the same time want to destroy its stereotypes. He emphasized that architecture should be fun, make the real more interesting and encourage people. In the end, he projected a tree on the screen to be compared to contemporary architecture which requires generative, unstable, diverse, relative, complicated and dynamic orders.

In addition to the symposium, the overseas architects were invited to universities to give individual lectures. After the Tokyo program, Sir Peter participated in the symposium at Kumamoto Artpolis
for which Mr. Toyo Ito works as the Commissioner.

The exhibition is scheduled to travel to Niigata City in April, 2009 and some cities are considering hosting it. We hope that fruitful discussions and exchanges will be continued and developed until 2010.

Rei Maeda (Coordinator, New Trends of Architecture)

ヨーロッパ･アジア･パシフィック建築の新潮流2008-2010が2008年12月5日〜12月21日までヒルサイドフォーラムにて開催されます。

第5回となる「ヨーロッパ･アジア･パシフィック建築の新潮流」。計91組の建築家が参加した日本発の国際プロジェクトは、ひとつの区切りを迎えます。

本プロジェクトは、今回で第5回となり、ひとつの区切りを迎えます。今回は、伊東豊雄、ピーター・クック両氏をコミッショナーに迎え、2010年にEU加盟が予定されているトルコも含め、15カ国15組の建築家が選ばれました。12月5日よりヒルサイドテラスで開催される東京展を皮切りに、アジア、ヨーロッパ各都市を巡回する予定です。
この記念すべき第5回東京展のシンポジウムには、伊東・クック両コミッショナー、出展建築家に加え、槇文彦、原広司氏をはじめとする過去4回のコミッショナー、出展建築家も参加、豪華な顔ぶれが揃います。本プロジェクトでうまれたネットワークと経験と思想の共有の場をさらに次の段階に発展させるための大いなるステップとしていきたいと思います。

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