ＴＯＴＯギャラリー・間は、運営委員である塚本由晴、千葉学、セン・クアン、田根剛の4氏をキュレーターに迎え、企画展「How is Life?――地球と生きるためのデザイン」を開催します。
21世紀に生きる私たちは豊かな暮らしを享受する一方で、気候変動や社会格差、感染症の拡大等による世界情勢の変化など、さまざまな課題に直面しています。こうした状況を受け、地球環境に対し建築に何ができるのか、運営委員と議論を重ねてきました。その過程で、建築を「人びとの暮らしをよりよくすることに奉仕するもの」として捉え直し、生活に関連するあらゆる分野に目を向けてみると、私たちを取り巻く障壁に風穴を開けるような事例の芽がいたるところで見つかりました。こうした議論やリサーチが、建築やデザインを介した、成長を前提としない繁栄のあり方を探る本展のテーマ「地球と生きるためのデザイン（Designing for our Earth）」へと発展しています。
展覧会会場では、本展キュレーターチームからの問いかけ「How is Life?」に答えている古今東西の多彩な事例をリサーチから見いだし、紹介します。
一例として、2018年にフランスで開催された展覧会「Capital Agricole（キャピタル・アグリコール）」では、色鮮やかなドローイング等を通じて、農業と共存するパリと周辺都市の未来像を提示しています。「藤村記念堂」（岐阜県、設計：谷口吉郎）は、地元出身の文豪を慕う人びとの熱意に建築家が呼応し、物資に乏しい戦後の山村において、子供や女性を含む村人たちの手で1947年に建設されました。
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Peter Zumthor, architect, in conversation with architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams.
About Peter Zumthor
Born in 1943 in Basel, Switzerland, Zumthor works with around three dozen people in the alpine setting of Haldenstein, Switzerland, producing architecture originals like Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Therme Vals, Vals, Switzerland; Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany; and the Steilneset Memorial, Vardo, Norway. In 1963, he began studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, an arts and crafts school in Basel, and studied industrial design and architecture as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York in 1966.
Zumthor founded Atelier Peter Zumthor in 1979. His work is largely unpublished because he believes that architecture must be experienced first-hand. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award (1999); the Praemium Imperiale (2008); and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2009). In 2012, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He is currently designing the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
About Billie Tsien and Tod Williams
Husband-and-wife architecture firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners, was founded in 1986 in New York City. Williams and Tsien began working together in 1977. Their firm focuses on institutions such as museums, schools, and nonprofit organizations, including the following recent projects: the Obama Presidential Center, Chicago; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; American Folk Art Museum, New York; and the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) has influenced some of today’s greatest architects. His Umbrella House inspired and stimulated the architectural discourse in 1960s Japan. In order to safeguard it for posterity, the house, first built in Tokyo in 1961, has now been reconstructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. Its opening was accompanied by a book launch, presenting a new publication about the Umbrella House created in collaboration by Rolf Fehlbaum, the Vitra Design Museum, and Zurich-based architects DEHLI GROLIMUND. It was followed by a talk with Christian Kerez, architect and professor at ETH Zurich, and architecture critic Hubertus Adam.
“What are they afraid of?”
We went to see German star photographer Thomas Struth in his Berlin studio and met a man both concerned and enraged about the ongoing attacks on our liberal values and democracies.
“Culture, concerts, theatre, dance, music, and museums bring people together to have a shared experience about something that is not clearly defined. It is free-floating, and that is a democratic quality.”
“It’s an acknowledgment of a community to try to understand life by seeing other interpretations of life. Interpretations that are not yours.”
Struth witnesses attacks on cultural institutions all over the world and sees both art, artists, and cultural institutions like museums as prime defenders of democratic rights and values:
“Right-wing institutions try to control culture because of its free-floating opinions. They want to control arts and culture. Often I think: What the f… are they afraid of? But this is what they are afraid of. They are afraid of the freedom of mind.”
Thomas Struth was born in 1954 in Geldern, Germany, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was part of the first generation of artists to study photography with Bernd and Hilla Becher. Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Struth’s work have been presented at institutions including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Museum Folkwang in Essen and Haus der Kunst in Munich. Between 1993-1996 Struth was the first Professor of Photography at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. Struth was awarded the Spectrum International Prize for Photography by Kulturstiftung Lower Saxony.
