New Cultural Ecology

architect Kazuyo Sejima
project Inujima Art House Project, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
written by Maroje Mrduljaš

 

The strategy of revitalizing spaces that are dying or abandoned by means of art and architecture is a process we have been observing for quite some time, in very different contexts and very different scales. Urban renewal with culture therefore has become a very common method of reactivating industrial heritage and city zones that have lost their initial function.