Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture
‘Make Do With Now’ sheds light on an emerging generation of architects and urban practitioners in Japan. Largely entering professional practicefollowing the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear di-saster, this generation is developing a range of critical, ecological, and social approaches that creatively ‘make do’ – with limited resources, found materials, and existing spaces – while seeking appropriate responses to the urgent problems of the present. Turning their backs on the traditional image of the architect-author, these practitioners are articulating a new architectural agency in working from the periphery, exploiting gaps in the system, and occupying new roles in the process that have previously been overlooked. Through newly commissioned photographs, films, and a wide range of models, the exhibition provides a multifaceted portrait of this generation and suggests new understandings of what architecture can be – and do.
Participating architects:
403architecture [dajiba], CHAr, dot architects, GROUP, Masaaki Iwamoto / ICADA, Ishimura + Neichi, Kengo Satō / Korogaro Association, Lunch! Architects, Murayama + Kato Architecture / mtka, Maki Yoshimura / MYAO, Norihisa Kawashima / Nori Architects, Fuminori Nousaku Architects, Jumpei Nousaku Architects, Shun Takagi / Root A, Rui Itasaka / RUI Architects, SSK, Studio GROSS, Keigo Kawai / TAB, Chie Konno / t e c o, tomito architecture, Tsubame Architects, Mio Tsuneyama, Shigenori Uoya, VUILD, Suzuko Yamada
Curator: Yuma Shinohara
Films: Studio GROSS
Photography: Go Itami
Scenography: Yusuke Seki
Exhibition Graphic Design: 75W / Tilmann S. Wendelstein
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue including detailed documenta-tion of the featured projects as well as essays by established and emerging experts on contemporary architecture in Japan:
S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Yuma Shinohara, Andreas Ruby (HG. / EDS.): ‘Make Do With Now: New Directions In Japanese Architecture’. Christoph Merian Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85616-977-0, 320 pages, English, CHF 39.–
Photos: Tom Bisig
Exhibition flyer: here
Accompanying Program: here
The exhibition ‘Make Do With Now:
New Directions in Japanese Architecture’
is supported by:
Exhibition Partner:
Cosentino
Schweizerisch-Japanische Gesellschaft
Partner Event Program:
LINA, the European architecture platform
Creative-Europe-Programm der Europäischen Union
