A house is art. A house must be beautiful.
These are the words of Kazuo Shinohara.
Gallery Ma usually introduces contemporary architects and their projects, but for the special exhibition commemorating its 40th anniversary, it focused on one of the legendary architects, Kazuo Shinohara.
While national and city-level architecture, such as the World Expo and Metabolism architecture, was being discussed, Kazuo Shinohara was an architect who was thoroughly committed to housing.
At the venue, copies of Kazuo Shinohara's house blueprints were available for anyone to view.
Every single room in the house was carefully and meticulously designed down to the smallest detail, and I was impressed by how impressive it was.
An interview video of Kazuo Shinohara from his later years was playing in the venue.
Sitting in a cafe in Daikanyama, he spoke of the streetscape in front of him as an example of how Japan has its own unique town and house shapes, which are different from European streetscapes.
Shinohara is known primarily for his residential design, but I was surprised to see in the list of his works the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, which I have visited. It ended up coming in second, and the current museum was designed by Steven Holl, who came in first.
On the wall outside the gallery, there were 100 questions posed by Shinohara Kazuo to young architects today.
Let's hope that the answers will give birth to new architecture in the future.






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