Tokyo National Art Center by Kisho Kurokawa
event
Saturday 1 April 2017 ore 11:30 - 13:00

The Histories of Architecture. The Cities of the WorldTokyo. The world’s greatest city | with Livio Sacchi

MAXXI Auditorium – admittance €5; ticket purchasers are entitled to reduced price admittance to the museum (€ 8) within one week of issue
€4 for myMAXXI cardholders; special myMAXXI carnet for four lectures €12

From architecture to planning, four lectures for four cities: Tokyo, Milan, London and New York recounted through their social, cultural, economic and political contexts

For the second edition of The Histories of Architecture academics working in the field will be discussing through a stratigraphic reading of contemporary architecture and planning the social, cultural, economic and political contexts of Tokyo, Milan, London and New York, presenting an image as variegated and complete as possible of these four international architectural poles.

Tokyo
With its 38 million, the Greater Tokyo area is one of the world’s most extensive and populous polycentric systems integrating many different cities in one of the most advanced economic, technological and cultural concentrations on the planet.

The Histories of Architecture project has been produced thanks to the support of MINI, a MAXXI Public Programs Partner