Yasutaka Yoshimura: MANGARCHITECTURE――Absence of an Architect
An exhibition on the design activities of our university's professor, Professor Yoshimura Yasutaka, titled "Yoshimura Yasutaka: Manga Architecture - The Absence of an Architect" will be held at the TOTO Gallery MA. In addition, a lecture by Professor Yoshimura will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. We hope you will come and join us.
The following is from the release statement of TOTO Gallery Ma: (Translated by Google)
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Since the early days of his architectural career, Yasutaka Yoshimura has attempted to build various relationships between spontaneous movements such as people's behavior and diverse social conditions such as social systems and situations, so that architecture can serve as a bridge between the two.
For example, he has explored new ways of living and living in the declining population society that Japan will face in the future, such as "Fukumas Base" (2016), which realizes a childcare support facility where children can spend time freely in a large single-room space by covering a wooden building with an existing tent warehouse, "Home to Go #001" (2019), a "semi-movable property building" that sees architecture as something between real estate and movable property, and imagines a life where people can choose where to live without being tied to the land, and "Takigahara Chicken Village" (2021), which envisions an animal welfare society where not only humans but also animals can live happy lives.
In order to further advance Yoshimura's exploration of the scalability of architecture in modern society, what would happen if the architect's individual artistry was "absent"? This is the question that Yoshimura will ask through this exhibition, using his own work as a subject.
In this exhibition, different manga artists will illustrate seven of Yoshimura's projects as seven stories, exploring the possibility of new interpretations of architecture. The world of manga has developed in a unique way among two-dimensional pictorial expressions, and has become familiar in our daily lives. When manga meets architecture, what will be drawn after it leaves the hands of the architect? We hope that visitors will discover what is born from the collaboration between architecture and manga.
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[Exhibition Overview]
Exhibition Name : Yasutaka Yoshimura: MANGARCHITECTURE - Absence of an Architect
Dates: January 16th (Thursday) - March 23rd (Sunday), 2025, 11:00-18:00
Closed: Mondays and public holidays, except for February 23rd (Sunday, public holiday)
*Please check the latest information on the TOTO Gallery Ma website
Admission Fee: Free
Venue: TOTO Gallery Ma (1-24-3 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) TOTO Nogizaka Building 3F
Organizer: TOTO Gallery Ma
Planning: TOTO Gallery Ma Steering Committee (Special Advisor: Ando Tadao, Committee Members: Kaijima Momoyo, Hirata Akihisa, Seng Kuan, Tane Tsuyoshi)
Sponsor: Tokyo Architects Association, Tokyo Association of Architects and Building Engineers, Japan Institute of Architects Kanto Koshinetsu Branch, Architectural Institute of Japan Kanto Branch
Cooperation: Waseda University Yoshimura Yasutaka Laboratory
[Lecture Summary]
Title: Yoshimura Yasushi Takashi Lecture "What is the 'absence of architects'?"
Date and time: Friday, February 21, 2025, doors open at 17:30, performance begins at 18:30, ends at 20:00 (scheduled)
Venue: Iino Hall (4F Iino Building, 2-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
Capacity: 500 people (scheduled)
Application period: Now accepting applications until Sunday, February 9
How to participate: Advance application required / Free to participate
Please apply via the website below.
https://jp.toto.com/gallerma/ex250116/sympsm.htm
*Please fill in the "university name" and "lab name" in the affiliation field.
If there are a large number of applicants, we will hold a lottery and notify you of the results by Friday, February 14th.