Arthub Favorite: Week 101
Roppongi Hills and Mori Art Museum 15th Anniversary Exhibition
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation
Duration: 2018 April 25 – September 17
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Japanese architecture today attracts attention from all over the world. Numerous architects, from Tange Kenzo to Taniguchi Yoshio, Ando Tadao, Kuma Kengo, Sejima Kazuyo and other young upcoming architects have received great international acclaim. Founded on rich traditions that have stretch back to ancient times, contemporary Japanese architecture encompasses exceptionally creative and original ideas and expressions.
In the 150 years following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, architecture presented immense opportunities for experimentation in Japan. How did the long and rich Japanese tradition of wooden architecture evolve, among a great number of practices? What did the West find attractive about architecture in Japan, and how did Japanese architecture then respond to this interest? The transitions of such things invisible to the eye as everyday life and views of nature also provide important elements for understanding Japanese architecture.
Structured around nine sections based on key concepts for interpreting architecture in Japan today, this exhibition traces the lineage of architecture from ancient times until the present, and explores the elements of genealogy undermined by modernism and concealed beneath, yet undeniably vital still. Featuring 100 projects and over 400 items that include important architectural materials, models, and interactive installations, the wide-ranging exhibits will illuminate not only the state of Japanese architecture in the past and present but also a vision of the future.
On Mori Art Museum Exhibition, “Japan in Architecture”
The arrival on the scene of Tange Kenzo propelled contemporary Japanese architecture to the cutting edge of global architectural practice, where it has remained ever since. That this was possible owes much to traditional Japanese architecture, the spirit of which runs through the veins of Japanese architects whether or not they are aware of it ― in their spatial sense, in the use of wooden construction using pillars and walls, and the division of inside and out, for example.
This exhibition takes actual projects by leading architects, and uses these examples to illuminate this invisible connection between such traditions and the present day.
― Fujimori Terunobu, Advisor
Organizer: Mori Art Museum
In Association with
Architectural Institute of Japan
The Japan Institute of Architects
ARCASIA ACA18 Tokyo
Japan Structural Consultants Association
Japanese Society for the Science of Design
Adviser:
Fujimori Terunobu (Architect; Architectural Historian; Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Curators:
Nanjo Fumio (Director, Mori Art Museum)
Maeda Naotake (Manager, Architecture and Design Programs, Mori Art Museum)
Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Kurakata Shunsuke (Architectural Historian; Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Urban Engineering [Architecture], Osaka City University)
Ken Tadashi Oshima (Architectural Historian; Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington)
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