Built Environment: An Alternative Guide to Japan
The exhibition features 80 examples of buildings, civil engineering works and landscapes, etc., from all the prefectures of Japan, which are introduced through photographs, text and video images. It presents a rarely considered aspect of Japan, taking the built environment of the various of regions of a country that is geographically diverse and often struck by natural disasters, with the aim of examining how Japanese people have engaged and struggled with the natural environment and how they have carried on and created locality.
Curators
Shunsuke Kurakata (Associate professor, Osaka City University)
Satoshi Hachima (Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology)
Kenjiro Hosaka (Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Exhibition Design
Hiroshi Kikuchi Architects
Exhibition Graphics
Masahiro Kakinokihara (10inc),Tomomi Nishikawa (10inc)
Dates
2026 first semester Italy *TBC
2025 second semester Canada *TBC
March 13 - July 15, 2025
The Japan Foundation, Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
January 26 - February 26, 2025
SCIArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture)(Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
November 7 - December 7, 2024
UNAM (Faculty of Architecture) (Mexico City, Mexico)
October 18 - 28, 2024
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus(Mexico City, Mexico)
September 5 - 29, 2024
National Museum of Anthropology David J. Guzman (San Salvador, El Salvador)
July 27 - August 18, 2024
House of Culture in Puntarenas(Puntarenas, Costa Rica)
June 20 - July 21, 2024
School of Architecture of University of Costa Rica(San Jose, Costa Rica)
May 6 - 30, 2024
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of the Republic of Uruguay(Montevideo, Uruguay)
January 9 - February 3, 2024
Palace of Justice Cultural Center (Manaus, Brazil)
November 28 - December 20, 2023
Museum of Sacred Art of Para (Belem, Brazil)
October 9 - November 12, 2023
Caixa (Brasilia, Brazil)
July 27 - August 27, 2023
Municipal Art Museum of Curitiba (Curitiba, Brazil)
June 20 - July 16, 2023
Postal Service Cultural Center (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
April 19 - June 11, 2023
The Sao Paulo State Immigration Museum (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Moerenuma Park Isamu Noguchi
Keihin Industrial Area
Photo by Ken OHYAMA
Koyaguchi Elementary School
Photo courtesy of Hashimoto City, Wakayama Prefecture
Hiroshima Naka Incineration Plant Yoshio Taniguchi
Photo by Toshiharu Kitajima
Onagawa Station and Yupo’po Shigeru Ban
Photo courtesy of Onagawa Town
Nagaoka City Hall Aore Kengo Kuma
Photo by Mitsumasa Fujitsuka
The Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project
Photo by Takuya Omura
Hakusui Dam
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