A very very nice Japanese Pavilion. Instead of presenting us his vision of the future of architecture as other countries do, the curator of the pavilion, Terunobu Fujimori, highlighted two art movements that have been active for over a decade in Japan - the architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and ROJO (the Roadway Observation Society.)
Everyone had to remove their shoes to walk through a square hole in a wooden wall to enter the exhibition room paved in tatami mats.
Takasugi-an (Too-High Teahouse) and Tanpopo House (Dandelion House) 1995
Fujimori, sometimes called the world’s only “surreal architect”, uses traditional materials such as earth, stone, wood, charcoal, tree bark and mortar. Adding living plants in his buildings to express his interest in the relationship between architecture and nature (pots of chives sway in the breeze on the roof of the Chive House while the roof of Single Pine House has a pine tree […]
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