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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
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