How is Life? — Designing for our Earth
Published: November 2023
ISBN＝978-4-88706-405-8
Unit price: 3,960JPY (tax included)
Supervisor: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Manabu Chiba, Seng Kuan, Tsuyoshi Tane
Co-author: Siena Hirao, Anastasia Gkoliomyti
210×148mm, 364pages, Japanese/English
Description of contents
How should we live in the era of “prosperity without growth”?
Human activities since the Industrial Revolution have exceeded the planetary boundary, causing climate change and the North-South disparity. How should we live in an era of “prosperity without growth” in line with the natural regenerative capacity of our planet, and how should architecture be in this context?
This book summarizes the contents of the ambitious exhibition “How is Life” held at TOTO GALLERY・MA, and includes additional articles and interviews by the supervisors.
Profile
Supervisor profiles
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Architect. Born 1965. Graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in 1987. Studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville from 1987 to 1988. Founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. Withdrew from the doctoral program at Tokyo Tech in 1994 after completing all coursework. Received a PhD in Engineering in 1996. Has taught as a visiting professor at UCLA, Harvard GSD, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell AAP, and KADAK, among other institutions. Currently a professor at Tokyo Tech.
Manabu Chiba
Architect. Born 1960. Graduated from The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 1985. Completed a master’s degree at UTokyo in 1987. Worked as an employee at Nihon Sekkei, a co-principal of Factor N Associates, an assistant of the UTokyo Campus Planning Office, and an assistant of the UTokyo Tadao Ando Laboratory before founding Chiba Manabu Architects
and becoming an associate professor at UTokyo in 2001. Visiting professor at ETH Zurich from 2009 to 2010. Professor at UTokyo since 2013.
Seng Kuan
Architectural historian. Born in 1976. Completed a PhD in Architecture at Harvard University. Currently a lecturer at the Harvard GSD, and the director of International Architectural Education Platform SEKISUI HOUSE – KUMA LAB in the University of Tokyo. Specializes in Japanese contemporary architectural history. Comwmissioned as the chief editorial advisor of a+u magazine during 2020-21.
Tsuyoshi Tane
Architect. Born 1979. Based in Paris. Graduated from the Hokkaido Tokai University in 2002, visiting researcher at Royal Danish Academy in 2003, worked at Henning Larsen and Adjaye Associates, Co-principal of Dorell Ghotmeh Tane / Architects 2006-16. Founded Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in Paris, 2017. Has taught the Columbia University from 2012-18 and currently visiting professor at Tama Art University.
Co-auther profiles
Siena Hirao
Born 1992. Graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2017. Exchange student at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2018-19. Completed the Department of Architecture, School of Environmental and Social Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2021. She enrolled in the doctoral programme of the same graduate school and in the General
Incorporated Association Small Earth.
Anastasia Gkoliomyti
Architect. Born 1992. Graduated with an March in Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 2018. She received the Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship to do research as a doctoral student at Tsukamoto Laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Together with her team, ‘Work_Experiments’ she won the first prize in the National Competition for the Adaptive Reuse of Ladopoulos Papermill Factory in Patras, Greece in 2021.
Contents
Introduction
Our Path to “How is Life?” ──Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Projects
Capital Agricole, La Ferme du Rail, Urban Forestry, ReBuilding Center JAPAN, Small Earth, Land and Labor, Dry Stone Walling School of Japan, Collective Thatching, Tool Shed, Bicycle Urbanism, Bikeable, 15-Minute City, Floating Farm, Community Toilets for SPARC, Kuwamizu Sento, The Garden in Movement, How to Settle on Earth, Tokyo Bay Plan, Wheatfield - A Confrontation, Toson Memorial Hall, A tree; a corporation; a person.,
Talk Session
How is Life in Paris? ──Augustin Rosenstiehl × Clara Simay × Tsuyoshi Tane
From “Service Shed” to “Tool Shed”: Building Types of the 21st Century ──Akinori Kubo ×Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Taking a Fresh Look at Architecture Based on Our Physical Aspects ──Asa Ito × Manabu Chiba
The Role of the Curator in Today's World ──Giovanna Borasi × Seng Kuan
Afterword
“How is Life?” continues ──Kumiko Ikada
