Traveling Exhibition
Built Environment:
An Alternative Guide to Japan

「構築環境-もうひとつの日本ガイド」展

Dates:
January 19 - Feburary 28, 2025

Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9:00pm-6:00pm, Sun: 12:00pm-6:00pm
Closed on Saturdays and Holidays (January 20)

Opening Reception:
5:00-6:30pm Friday, January 17, 2025

RSVP(preffered)

Location:
SCI-Arc Kappe Library Gallery
(960 East 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA 90013)
Admission: FREE
 

The exhibition features dozens of examples of buildings, civil engineering works and landscapes, etc., from all the prefectures of Japan, which are introduced through photographs, text and video images. It presents a rarely considered aspect of Japan, taking the built environment of the various of regions of a country that is geographically diverse and often struck by natural disasters, with the aim of examining how Japanese people have engaged and struggled with the natural environment and how they have carried on and created locality.

Curators:
Shunsuke Kurakata (Associate professor, Osaka City University)
Satoshi Hachima (Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology)
Kenjiro Hosaka (Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)

Exhibition Design:
Hiroshi Kikuchi Architects

Exhibition Graphics:
Masahiro Kakinokihara (10inc), Tomomi Nishikawa (10inc)

Please watch the introductory video (English subtitle available).
YouTube playlist can be found here