Terunobu Fujimori. Ein Stein Tea House and Other Architectures
12/09/2020.
[Neuss] Germany 04.09 > 29.11.2020 - 5.02 > 11.04.2021
metalocus, LUCAS SANTORINI
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Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori is widely known for his peculiar projects, usually with a surreal concept, which show oddly organized spaces and rickety-looking structures
At the beginning of his career, he researched, taught and was publishing exclusively as a historian. Their begining studies have been compared to Venturi and Scott-Brown's Learning from Las Vegas.
The architect Terunobu Fujimori (1946) was 45 when he developed his first design and since then, he has realized projects that have received strong international attention. In his tea houses, as well as in his large buildings, he uses natural materials and distinguishes himself from common formal languages.
At the beginning of his career, he researched, taught and was publishing exclusively as a historian. Their begining studies have been compared to Venturi and Scott-Brown's Learning from Las Vegas.
The architect Terunobu Fujimori (1946) was 45 when he developed his first design and since then, he has realized projects that have received strong international attention. In his tea houses, as well as in his large buildings, he uses natural materials and distinguishes himself from common formal languages.
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Hertha Hurnaus, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Hertha Hurnaus, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Hertha Hurnaus, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Hertha Hurnaus, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Hertha Hurnaus, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Yagisuki, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
2020 Ein Stein Tee house by Terunobu Fujimori in Raketenstation Hombroich. Photgraph by Hertha Hurnaus, courtesy of Stiftung Insel Hombroich
The Ein Stein Tea House was planned and realized over a year and now forms an exhibit on a scale of 1:1, which will be preserved by the Stiftung Insel Hombroich.
It reflects the precise knowledge of the history and principles of the tea ceremony and its very personal interpretation by the architect and historian Terunobu Fujimori. In particular, natural materials such as untreated robinia trunks and a wooden boarding carbonized by the traditional Yakisugi method were used.
The exhibition Terunobu Fujimori. Ein Stein Tea House and other Architectures exhibition (opening 4 September) focuses on tea houses he planned, in particular the Ein Stein Tea House designed for the Raketenstation Hombroich and its genesis. Like other buildings and furniture on display, the tea houses are characterized by the use of natural materials and their relationship to the surrounding landscape.
Terunobu Fujimori combines a sociological interest with a neo-dadaist sensibility, in which he has been capturing absurd situations in Japanese urban space in photographs and drawings since the early 1970s. In 1986, together with Genpei Akasegawa, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda and Shinbo Minami, he formed the ROJO Society for Roadside Observation Studies, whose observations the exhibition provides insight into.
Karl Heinrich Müller, the founder of Museum Insel Hombroich, had a special interest in the tea ceremony as well as in objects and works of art from the context of this centuries-old tradition. The Foundation's collection includes numerous tea bowls and other vessels that were used in ceremonies. A selection not previously shown is on display.
It reflects the precise knowledge of the history and principles of the tea ceremony and its very personal interpretation by the architect and historian Terunobu Fujimori. In particular, natural materials such as untreated robinia trunks and a wooden boarding carbonized by the traditional Yakisugi method were used.
The exhibition Terunobu Fujimori. Ein Stein Tea House and other Architectures exhibition (opening 4 September) focuses on tea houses he planned, in particular the Ein Stein Tea House designed for the Raketenstation Hombroich and its genesis. Like other buildings and furniture on display, the tea houses are characterized by the use of natural materials and their relationship to the surrounding landscape.
Terunobu Fujimori combines a sociological interest with a neo-dadaist sensibility, in which he has been capturing absurd situations in Japanese urban space in photographs and drawings since the early 1970s. In 1986, together with Genpei Akasegawa, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda and Shinbo Minami, he formed the ROJO Society for Roadside Observation Studies, whose observations the exhibition provides insight into.
Karl Heinrich Müller, the founder of Museum Insel Hombroich, had a special interest in the tea ceremony as well as in objects and works of art from the context of this centuries-old tradition. The Foundation's collection includes numerous tea bowls and other vessels that were used in ceremonies. A selection not previously shown is on display.
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Curators
Frank Boehm with Leonhard Panzenböck.
Dates
4 September 2020 – 29 November 2020.
5 February 2021 – 11 April 2021.
Venue / Adress
Museum Insel Hombroich. Minkel 2, 41472 Neuss. Germany.
Terunobu Fujimori
Terunobu Fujimori is an Architect and Historian of Japanese architecture, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Research Professor of Kogakuin University, Managing Director of Edo-Tokyo Museum. Born in 1946 in Nagano, Japan, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1980.
Whilst writing his thesis in the 1970s Fujimori formed the Architecture Detectives. In this group he and his colleagues searched the city to find and photograph early Western-style buildings. Twelve years of work on this subject resulted in the publication of the book Adventures of an Architectural Detective: Tokyo (1986). In 1986 Fujimori formed the Roadway Observation Society with Genpei Akasegawa, Shinbo Minami, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda. The group records unusual but naturally occurring patterns in the city, for example the pattern left by a tree on a concrete wall or a rubbish bin that has been bent over to form a seat. Their studies have been compared to Venturi and Scott-Brown's Learning from Las Vegas.
In 1991, Fujimori began to practice architecture with his first work, the Jinchōkan Moriya Historical Museum (神長官守矢史料館 Jinchōkan Moriya Shiryōkan) in Chino, Nagano. Architectural influences for his work include Le Corbusier, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Takamasa Yoshizaka, the Ise Shrine and Callanish Standing Stones. His architecture is characterised by eccentricity and humour, experimental use of natural materials and the subversion of traditional techniques. Although the Jinchōkan Moriya Historical Museum has been criticised for merely wrapping a concrete structure in natural materials, it was praised by architect Kengo Kuma as "generating fond feelings of familiarity in people who had never seen it before".
Well known in Japan as an author, cultural commentator and TV host he was relatively unknown in the West until he represented Japan in the 2006 Venice Biennale. His display in the Japanese pavilion showed houses sprouting leeks and dandelions. As the theme of the Biennale was the "city" Fujimori included a woven rice twine hut housing a slide presentation of the work of ROJO. In 2010 he contributed the Beetle's House to one of seven designs for the V&A's "1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces" exhibition.
His work with ROJO has left an impression on younger architects like Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima of Atelier Bow-Wow. Like Fujimori they surveyed the city for "no-good" architecture and published their findings in the book Made in Tokyo.
In 2018 he served as advisor of exhibition Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformations curated by Director of Mori Art Museum Fumio Nanjo.
Whilst writing his thesis in the 1970s Fujimori formed the Architecture Detectives. In this group he and his colleagues searched the city to find and photograph early Western-style buildings. Twelve years of work on this subject resulted in the publication of the book Adventures of an Architectural Detective: Tokyo (1986). In 1986 Fujimori formed the Roadway Observation Society with Genpei Akasegawa, Shinbo Minami, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda. The group records unusual but naturally occurring patterns in the city, for example the pattern left by a tree on a concrete wall or a rubbish bin that has been bent over to form a seat. Their studies have been compared to Venturi and Scott-Brown's Learning from Las Vegas.
In 1991, Fujimori began to practice architecture with his first work, the Jinchōkan Moriya Historical Museum (神長官守矢史料館 Jinchōkan Moriya Shiryōkan) in Chino, Nagano. Architectural influences for his work include Le Corbusier, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Takamasa Yoshizaka, the Ise Shrine and Callanish Standing Stones. His architecture is characterised by eccentricity and humour, experimental use of natural materials and the subversion of traditional techniques. Although the Jinchōkan Moriya Historical Museum has been criticised for merely wrapping a concrete structure in natural materials, it was praised by architect Kengo Kuma as "generating fond feelings of familiarity in people who had never seen it before".
Well known in Japan as an author, cultural commentator and TV host he was relatively unknown in the West until he represented Japan in the 2006 Venice Biennale. His display in the Japanese pavilion showed houses sprouting leeks and dandelions. As the theme of the Biennale was the "city" Fujimori included a woven rice twine hut housing a slide presentation of the work of ROJO. In 2010 he contributed the Beetle's House to one of seven designs for the V&A's "1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces" exhibition.
His work with ROJO has left an impression on younger architects like Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima of Atelier Bow-Wow. Like Fujimori they surveyed the city for "no-good" architecture and published their findings in the book Made in Tokyo.
In 2018 he served as advisor of exhibition Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformations curated by Director of Mori Art Museum Fumio Nanjo.
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