How can we engage with architecture in this challenging time? Is architecture keeping pace with the rapidly changing world? What is architecture to our everyday lives…? Five architects have been invited from Asia to explore answers to these questions.

Asia, which has risen up time and again from conflict and chaos, is home to a robust vitality. It encompasses powerful ideas, various scales and speeds, and the strength to look out to the future in the face of crises and challenges. It is also a place of desire and a place where people intently aspire to the future without fear of loss.

This exhibition invites us to explore the relationship between nature, architecture, and the everyday by weaving together stories through picking up on the hints about the "Asian everyday" that each of the five architects present. The exhibits by Yang Zhao and Ling Hao provide us with first-hand lessons on their studies of nature and architecture. The exhibit by Vo Trong Nghia gives us an up-close look at architecture within nature. The exhibits by Chatpong Chuenrudeemol and Maki Onishi + Yuki Hyakuda recreate various feelings and impressions invoked by architecture and everyday life. These stories that unfold within the exhibition spaces are sure to make us aware of how diverse the relationships are between "the everyday", "nature", and "architecture"—the keywords from which distinctively Asian architectural experiences are woven together.

What we see in these architects is a hidden force that has the power to overturn existing landscapes and conventional methods of environmental construction. They conduct this destructive act with their subtle sensibilities, intellectual rigor, and sharp insight. The images that they present are of individuals pursuing not architecture of material quantity but architecture that can improve our quality of life. We suspect that this exhibition will awaken within us experiences of the "Asian Everyday" that we have all actually unconsciously experienced.