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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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