"The Asian Everyday: Possibilities in the Shifting World"

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1 Sep 2, 2015 TOTO GALLERY MA 30th Anniversary Exhibition "The Asian Everyday: Possibilities in the Shifting World" Saturday, October 17 Saturday, December 12, 2015 TOTO GALLERY MA (TOTO Nogizaka Bldg., 3F, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Closed on Mondays and National Holidays except 10/26 (Mon), 11/2 (Mon), and 11/3 (Tue/ National Holiday) Hours: 11:00 18:00 Admission: Free The Age of Asia: Five Architects Projecting Hope for the Architecture Community This year TOTO GALLERY MA is celebrating the 30 th anniversary of its founding. To mark this occasion we are inviting architects from a range of Asian regions including Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, China, and Japan to hold an exhibition and a series of commemorative events in Tokyo, Sapporo, Sendai, Kyoto, Fukuoka, and Okinawa. These events, which will bring together people who are connected by the common factor of being Asian but who have diverse backgrounds, will aim to get participants to share their stories, recognize their differences, and attempt to identify common themes for the future at this present moment in time in which our ever-changing circumstances make it difficult for us to imagine the world of tomorrow. We hope that we all will be able to take our next step forward together by confirming through this project that the critical perspectives with which we look at the places where we are grounded and the sincere practices that we engage in in our daily lives can yield the power to open up a new everyday. TOTO GALLERY MA

2 Exhibition Information Title: TOTO GALLERY MA 30th Anniversary Exhibition The Asian Everyday: Possibilities in the Shifting World Exhibiting Architects: Chatpong CHUENRUDEEMOL (Thailand) / LING Hao (Singapore) / VO Trong Nghia (Vietnam) / Maki ONISHI + Yuki HYAKUDA (Japan) / Yang ZHAO (China) Date: Saturday, October 17 Saturday, December 12, 2015 Hours: 11:00 18:00 Closed on Mondays and National Holidays except 10/26 (Mon), 11/2 (Mon), and 11/3 (Tue/ National Holiday) Admission: Free TOTO GALLERY MA (TOTO Nogizaka Bldg., 3F, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, ) Tel: +81(3) URL: Directions: 1-min. walk from Nogizaka Station (Exit No. 3) on the Chiyoda subway line 6-min. walk from Roppongi Station (Exit No. 7) on the Oedo subway line 7-min. walk from Roppongi Station (Exit No. 4a) on the Hibiya subway line 7-min. walk from Aoyama 1-Chome Station (Exit No. 4) on the Ginza or Hanzomon or Oedo subway line Organized by TOTO GALLERY MA Planned by TOTO GALLERY MA Planning and Management Committee (Special Advisor: Tadao Ando; Members: Waro Kishi, Kazuyo Sejima, Hiroshi Naito, Erwin Viray) Guest Curator: Erwin VIRAY Space Design: Teppei FUJIWARA Supported by The Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers; Tokyo Association of Architectural Firms; The Japan Institute of Architects Kanto-Koshinetsu Chapter; and Kanto Chapter, Architectural Institute of Japan. Related Publication The Asian Everyday Possibilities in the Shifting World Supervision: Erwin VIRAY Author Chatpong CHUENRUDEEMOL / LING Hao / VO Trong Nghia / Maki ONISHI + Yuki HYAKUDA / Yang ZHAO Publication Date Scheduled to be published in mid-october 2015 Format Publisher Size: A5 (148mm x 210mm), paperback, 206 pages, texts in both Japanese and English TOTO Publishing (TEL = URL =

3 Message from the Guest Curator How can we engage with architecture in this challenging time? Is architecture keeping pace with the rapidly changing world? What is architecture to our everyday lives? Five architects have been invited from Asia to explore answers to these questions. Asia, which has risen up time and again from conflict and chaos, is home to a robust vitality. It encompasses powerful ideas, various scales and speeds, and the strength to look out to the future in the face of crises and challenges. It is also a place of desire and a place where people intently aspire to the future without fear of loss. This exhibition invites us to explore the relationship between nature, architecture, and the everyday by weaving together stories through picking up on the hints about the Asian everyday that each of the five architects present. The exhibits by Yang Zhao and Ling Hao provide us with first-hand lessons on their studies of nature and architecture. The exhibit by Vo Trong Nghia gives us an up-close look at architecture within nature. The exhibits by Chatpong Chuenrudeemol and Maki Onishi + Yuki Hyakuda recreate various feelings and impressions invoked by architecture and everyday life. These stories that unfold within the exhibition spaces are sure to make us aware of how diverse the relationships are between the everyday, nature, and architecture the keywords from which distinctively Asian architectural experiences are woven together. What we see in these architects is a hidden force that has the power to overturn existing landscapes and conventional methods of environmental construction. They conduct this destructive act with their subtle sensibilities, intellectual rigor, and sharp insight. The images that they present are of individuals pursuing not architecture of material quantity but architecture that can improve our quality of life. We suspect that this exhibition will awaken within us experiences of the Asian Everyday that we have all actually unconsciously experienced. Erwin Viray / Guest Curator Erwin VIRAY / Guest Curator Architectural critic. Born in Graduated from the University of Philippines College of Architecture in Completed the master s program of the Department of Architecture in the Kyoto Institute of Technology Graduate School of Science and Technology in Completed the doctoral program of the Department of Architecture in the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering in Taught as an associate professor at the Department of Architecture in the National University of Singapore School of Design & Environment before becoming a professor of the Department of Design and Architecture in the Kyoto Institute of Technology School of Science and Technology in July Global Excellence Professor and University President Aide since June Teppei FUJIWARA / Space Design Architect. Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, in Graduated from the Yokohama National University Graduate School. Worked at Kengo Kuma & Associates from 2001 and served as a studio director and partner until Established FUJIWALABO in Director of the non-profit organization Drifters International since Associate professor of the Y-GSA Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture since 2012.

4 Exhibiting Architects Chatpong CHUENRUDEEMOL (Bangkok, Thailand) Born in Bangkok, Thailand, in Lived in the United States with his family since when he was a child. Graduated from the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994 and received a master s degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Returned to Thailand in Co-directed Bangkok Architectural Research (b/a/r) from 2004 to 2012 (with Varoot Samalapa). Established CHAT architects in Selected as an Emerging Thai Architect of 2014 in Taught at the King Mongkut s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Rangsit University, and Chulalongkorn University. LING Hao (Singapore) Born in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, in Received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales (Australia) in Worked at Tangguanbee Architects in Singapore from 1993 to Directed Ham Architects from 1998 to 2000 (with KM Tan). Established Linghao Architects in Visiting associate professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design in Awards include Singapore s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Architectural Heritage Award (2007 and 2013), National Parks Board Skyrise Greenery Excellence Award (2013), and President s Design Award (2013 and 2014). KUU VO Trong Nghia (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Born in Quang Binh, Vietnam, in Graduated from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Completed the master s program of the Department of Civil Engineering in the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering in Awarded the University of Tokyo President s Award for Students in 2005 while in the university s doctoral program. Established Vo Trong Nghia Architects (VTN) in 2006 and Wind and Water House JSC (wnw) in 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Opened the VTN Hanoi Branch in Visiting professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design in Received numerous awards in and outside Vietnam, including the AR HOUSE AWARD (2014) and ARCASIA AWARD BUILDING OF THE YEAR (2014). Maki ONISHI + Yuki HYAKUDA (Tokyo, Japan) Maki ONISHI Born in Aichi, Japan, in Graduated from the Undergraduate School of Architecture in the Kyoto University Faculty of Engineering in Completed the master s program of the Department of Architecture in the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering in Withdrew from the university s doctoral program in 2011 after completing course requirements. Taught at Yokohama National University and Hosei University, among other places. Nacása & Partners Inc.

5 Exhibiting Architects Yuki HYAKUDA Born in Hyogo, Japan, in Graduated from the Undergraduate School of Architecture in the Kyoto University Faculty of Engineering in Completed the master s program of the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering in the Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering in Worked at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects from 2009 to Co-directors of onishimaki+hyakudayuki architects/ o+h since Notable awards include the SD Review Kajima Award (2007), Shinkenchiku Award (2012), and SD Review Asakura Award (2012). Yang ZHAO (Dali, China) Born in Chongqing, China, in Established Zhaoyang Studio in 2007 after graduating from Tshinghua University in Beijing. Received a master s degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2012 and founded Zhaoyang Architects in Dali, Yunnan, in the same year. Selected as the first Architectural Protégé of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2012 and designed the Home-for-All in Kesennuma for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake under the direction of Kazuyo Sejima. Awarded the WA Chinese Architecture Award (2010). Invited to lecture at Tshinghua University, Tongji University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Art Basel, and Geoffrey Bawa memorial lecture, among other places. Jacque Chong

6 Related Program I TOTO GALLERY MA 30th Anniversary Symposium Nature, Architecture, City and Everyday Life in the Shifting World Date: Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12:00 (doors open at 11:00; event scheduled to end at 15:30) Nikkei Hall (1-3-7 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Capacity: 610 people Admission: Free Online pre-registration required. Visit for details. Registration period is from Wednesday, September 2 to Sunday, October 4 Selected registrants will be notified by Friday, October 9. Program/ Participants Moderator: Erwin VIRAY Commentator: Teppei FUJIWARA Program: Introduction(12:05-12:15): The Asian Everyday Speaker: Erwin VIRAY Part I (12:15-13:15): Nature + Architecture Panelists: LING Hao, Yang ZHAO, VO Trong Nghia Part II (13:25-14:15): Architecture + City Panelists: Chatpong CHUENRUDEEMOL, Maki ONISHI + Yuki HYAKUDA Part III (14:15-15:30): Nature, Architecture, City and Everyday Life in the Shifting World Panelists: Chatpong CHUENRUDEEMOL, LING Hao, VO Trong Nghia, Maki ONISHI + Yuki HYAKUDA, Yang ZHAO Organized by TOTO GALLERY MA Planned by TOTO GALLERY MA Planning and Management Committee (Special Advisor: Tadao Ando; Members: Waro Kishi, Kazuyo Sejima, Hiroshi Naito, Erwin Viray) Supported by The Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers; Tokyo Association of Architectural Firms; The Japan Institute of Architects Kanto-Koshinetsu Chapter; and Kanto Chapter, Architectural Institute of Japan.

7 Related Program II Five-Cities Lecture Series Possibilities in the Shifting World Universities in the five cities of Sapporo, Sendai, Kyoto, Fukuoka, and Okinawa will each co-host a lecture featuring one of the exhibiting architects. For details about each of the lecture events, please visit TOTO GALLERY MA s official website. Vol. 1. Fukuoka / Kyushu University Vo Trong Nghia Lecture: Save Our Earth Moderator : Keiyo Fujihara (professor, Kyushu University Graduate School) Guests: Yoshitake Doi (architectural historian) / Masaaki Iwamoto (architect) Date/Time: Tuesday, October 20 at 18:30 (doors open at 18:00; event scheduled to end at 20:30) Multipurpose Building Hall, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University Co-hosts: Kyushu University Graduate School of Design / TOTO GALLERY MA Vol. 2. Sapporo / Hokkaido University Ling Hao Lecture: Towards an old Landscape Moderator: Takeo Ozawa (associate professor, Hokkaido University) Guests: Jun Igarashi (architect) / Makoto Kato (architect) Date/Time: Wednesday, October 28 at 18:30 (doors open at 18:00; event scheduled to end at 21:00) MUTSUMI HALL, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University Co-hosts: Division of Architectural and Structural Design, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Engineering / TOTO GALLERY MA Vol. 3. Okinawa / University of the Ryukyus Maki Onishi + Yuki Hyakuda Lecture: Architecture as Experience Moderator: Toru Irie (associate professor, University of the Ryukyus) Date/Time: Monday, November 2 at 19:00 (doors open at 18:30; event scheduled to end at 21:00) Room 222, Engineering Building No. 1, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus Co-hosts: Toru Irie Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus / TOTO GALLERY MA Vol. 4. Sendai / Tohoku University Yang Zhao Lecture: Rural Intervention Moderator: Masashige Motoe (associate professor, Tohoku University) Guests: Taro Igarashi (architectural historian) / Toshikazu Ishida (architect) Date/Time: Friday, November 27 at 18:30 (doors open at 18:00; scheduled to end at 20:30) Qatar Science Campus Hall, Tohoku University Co-hosts: Department of Architecture and Building Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University / TOTO GALLERY MA Vol. 5. Kyoto / Kyoto University of Art and Design Chatpong Chuenrudeemol Lecture: Boundaries Moderator: Nagisa Kidosaki (professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design) Guests: Woranooch Churenrudeemol (traditional Thai crafts researcher) / Shigeki Hattori (creative director) Date/Time: Sunday, December 6 at 14:00 (doors open at 13:30; event scheduled to end at 17:00) Gallerie Aube, Kyoto Institute of Technology Co-hosts: Kyoto University of Art and Design / TOTO GALLERY MA * all events: admission free (entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis)

8 Images for Media Use 1/3 [1] Nanda Heritage Hotel (design: CHAT architects / Bangkok, Thailand / 2015) c Ketsiree Wongwan [2] Everyday Scene: Bangkok, Thailand [3] House 11(design: Linghao Architects / Singapore / 2012) c Jeremy San [4] Everyday Scene: Singapore c Ling Hao

9 Images for Media Use 2/3 [5] Wind and Water Bar(design: Vo Trong Nghia Architects / Binh Duong Province, Vietnam / 2008) c Hiroyuki Oki [6] Everyday Scene: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam c Vo Trong Nghia Architects [7] Niju Rasen no Ie(design:onishimaki+hyakudayuki architects / o+h / Tokyo, Japan / 2011) c Kai Nakamura [8] Everyday Scene:Tokyo, Japan

10 Images for Media Use 3/3 [9] Shuangzi Hotel(design: Zhaoyang Architects / Dali, Yunnan, China / 2012-) c Jonathan Leijonhufvud [10] Everyday Scene: Dali, China c Zhinong Xi