Encounters with Umbrella House – Readings and Q&A
About this Event
Michaela Nettell presents her newly-published artist’s book bringing together responses to Shinohara’s 1961 Umbrella House by international practitioners working across fine art, filmmaking, creative writing, architecture and Japanese calligraphy.
Friday 26 June, 6-9pm. With informal talks and readings from 7pm from project contributors: Takeshi Hayatsu, Estefania Araujo Bianchi and Yuki Sumner.
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Umbrella House (Tokyo, 1961) represents a pivotal moment in Shinohara’s career before he began moving away from decorative concerns towards his search for an abstract space. It was recently saved from demolition and reconstructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Bringing together contemporary responses to the house by practitioners working across fine art, filmmaking, creative writing, architecture and calligraphy, Encounters offers timely new readings of Shinohara’s work. Foregrounding the voices and positions of women, the project expands existing technical, historical and almost exclusively masculine narratives around one of the most influential architects of Japan’s postwar generation.
Published by Passengers.
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