Yasutaka Yoshimura: MANGARCHITECTURE – Absence of an Architect | Gallery Ma Exhibit Tour

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Exhibit Description from Gallery Ma Website

Since the early days of his architectural activities, Yasutaka Yoshimura has strived to establish various relationships between spontaneous movements, such as people’s behavior, and different social conditions, such as social systems and situations so that architecture can serve as the bridge between the two.

He is exploring new ways of dwelling and living in the depopulating society Japan will face from now on. For example, with “Fukumasu Base” (2016), he covered a wooden structure with a ready-made tent warehouse to realize a childcare support facility where children can spend their time freely in a spacious open-plan space. With “Home2Go#001″(2019), he considered architecture as something between “immovable property” and “movable property” and imagined a “semi-movable property architecture” where people can choose where to live without being bound by the land. With “Takigahara Chicken Village” (2021), he envisioned an animal welfare society where humans and animals can lead happy lives together.What would happen if the architect’s authorship became “absent?” Yoshimura asks this question through this exhibition, using his work as reference material to further advance his exploration of the extensibility of architecture in today’s society.

In this exhibition, seven of Yoshimura’s projects are depicted as seven different stories by different manga artists to explore new interpretations of architecture. The world of manga has developed in a particularly unique way among two-dimensional pictorial expressions and has become a familiar part of our daily lives. What is depicted when manga and architecture meet and architecture leaves the architect’s hands? We invite everyone to discover what the collaboration of architecture and manga will create.

Exhibitor Profile – Yasutaka Yoshimura

Born in 1972 in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. He received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, in 1995 and a master’s degree from Waseda University in 1997. From 1999 to 2001 he worked at MVRDV (Netherlands) under the Overseas Study Program for Artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. He founded Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects Inc. in 2005. He was a professor by special appointment at Meiji University from 2013 to 2018, and is currently a professor at Waseda University.

He has received the Yoshioka Prize (2006), the Asia Design Award (2009), the Good Design Award Special Prize (2010), the House Award Gold Prize (2010), the JCD Design Award Grand Prix (2011), the Annual Prize of AIJ (2011, 2014, 2018), the AP Award (2014), the WADA Award (2016), and the Grand Prize of ADAN (2018). His written works include Super Legal Buildings (Shokokusha, 2006), EX-CONTAINER (Graphic-sha, 2008), and Behaviors and Protocols (LIXIL Publishing, 2012).

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