Kazunari Sakamoto Exhibition Opens

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Kazunari Sakamoto exhibition opens


An exhibition presenting Japan’s internationally renowned architect, Kazunari

Sakamoto, and his major works in residences and collective housing from the past

30 years opens tomorrow (Wednesday).


The architectural works by Professor Sakamoto, of the Tokyo Institute of

Technology, emerge at the boundaries of everyday life. These consciously

inconspicuous forms, both in a haphazard suburban setting or in the density of

Tokyo, provide an entirely new spatial sensation.


The exhibition is hosted by RMIT University Design Research Institute and

continues its interest in the discussion that expands the conventional focus on

“housing” as a general economic or social condition to include examination of the

individual dwelling and its spatial contexts. 


Moving beyond the large scale and the spectacular, this exhibition will demonstrate

the importance contemporary Japanese culture attaches to the activities and

environments of everyday life.


EXHIBITION


Kazunari Sakamoto

House: Poetics in the Ordinary


Dates:


8 April to 2 May

Venue:

The Atrium, Federation Square, 

corner Swanston and Flinders streets, Melbourne 


LECTURE


Date:


29 April

Time:


6pm

Venue:

ACMI Cinema 1, Federation Square, 

corner Swanston and Flinders streets, Melbourne


The RMIT Design Research Institute is hosting a public lecture by Professor

Sakamoto. It is an opportunity to hear him discuss his architectural composition and

how it finds greater significance in everyday life than in aesthetic expression. It is

this “absolute commonness of the everyday” that presents to him a space of

freedom that enables a communication between the body and the world. 

 

For interviews or further detail: Naomi Barun, (03) 9925 1926 or

naomi.barun@rmit.edu.au

7 April, 2009   






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