Kazuo Shinohara

“On the Thresholds of Space-Making” is the first european institutional survey exhibition on Kazuo Shinohara, the Japanese mathematician turned architect.

Shinohara Kazuo (1925-2006) is considered one of the most influential figures in post-war international modernism. “On the Tresholds of Space-Making” is the exhibition on show at the ETH Zurich, focused on his work and carreer.

Projects such as the Umbrella House (1959–61) and the House in White (1964–66) combined rigorous geometry with traditional Japanese forms to create purist structures of modest scale but vast ambition. Now this mathematician turned architect is receiving his first european institutional survey exhibition.

Organized by GTA Exhibitions, ETH Zurich and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, the exhibition features original drawings, sketches, period photographs and other archival material, much of which has never been publicly displayed before. Drawn largely from the Shinohara Kazuo Archive at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, “On the Thresholds of Space-Making” is curated by Seng Kuan, assistant professor of architectural history in Washington University in St. Louis.

until 21 October 2016
Kazuo Shinohara. On the Tresholds of Space-Making
Curated by Seng Kuan
ETH Zurich – GTA exhibitions
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Zurich

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