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Japanese House: Architecture and life after 1945 March 23rd - June 25th 2017 at the barbican center
Issue #1 Who let my fish loose? Personal belongings of an urban hermit inside the 1-in-1 recreation of his home This exhibition is everything you would never expect to see. It is an experience an immaterial portrait of society. It is more of a performance than a simple architectural exhibit. The centre of this exhibition is the Moriyama House. A spacial portrait of a man who has never caught a plane, or left Tokyo - a city where he was born. The one in one recreation of the Moriyama House by an award winning Japanese architect, Ryue Nishizawa is a successful, personal and unique fruit of the relationship between the architect and his client, and a story of how this fruit can grow into something much greater than just a building. The Moriyama House is as much a feeling as it is a house. Most of the progressive reconstruction in Japans started precisely because of destruction of everything and the housing crisis that arose from their defeat in WWII. They had to think practically, but also wanted to integrate their tradition and national identity to the demoralised public, to raise their spirit. Here, architects were not only faced with a constructional issue but also a social one, and so, rapid Japanese architectural growth began. The exhibition explores precisely this. How construction and character can intertwine. The curators of this exhibition achieve this by intelligently guiding the viewers, though time and space. Both, the metaphorical and physical centre of the 21
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