07 April 2009

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.

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