Fun Palace

“Fun Palace” was a project conceived by the architect Cedric Price in the 1960s. A mobile architecture using assembled modules and cranes, its idea was to allow the public to customize an environment for theatre, art, and education to form a new type of leisure center. Paying tribute to this idea, this magazine launched by Taka Ishii Gallery aims to go beyond contemporary art and introduce contemporary artists transcending genres. Through a shuffling of images and information, it aims to create a site as a source of inspiration that may induce new relations. We also hope to reflect this notion in the curatorial practice of our gallery. Enjoying ideas born associatively within each reader’s mind - “Fun Palace” is a device that offers such opportunities. Taka Ishii Gallery

Title : "Fun Palace"
Publisher : Taka Ishii Gallery
Book design : Shin Sobue + Shiyu Yanagiya (COZFISH)
Size: H 24 x W 15.5 cm
Pages : 65 pages
language: Japanese, English

Contents for 1st issue

Feature topic
Interview with three young architects
Tsuyoshi Tane　DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE/ARCHITECTS, Paris
Masato Takahashi　Herzorg & de Meuron, Basel
Yoshiki Mishima　Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, New York

Column
Sean Landers, cartoons
Daido Moriyama, essay
Kei Takemura, relay diary in Berlin
Minoru Shimizu, critic, essay on contemporary music
Fumihiko Sumitomo, curator of Museum of Contemporary Tokyo,
essay on film and image
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