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In our exhibition we present a large variety of Sou Fujimoto’s models.
He made them all with his assistants in his Tokyo studio. As models, they seem
rather simple and hand crafted, but they convey futuristic concepts about living in cities
which, in some cases, could not be put into practice in the presence.
The metaphors “Architecture as Forest” and “Forest as Architecture” are central
to Fujimoto’s thinking – and so is his refusal to use straightforward terms. There
is always the relation between inside and outside, between openness and closure - this
polarity of terms gives shape to Fujimoto’s work and we try to show this in a variety
of small-scale models, but also in the actual size replica of the “Final Wooden House”
in our sculpture garden. So we are in the lucky position that a real building completes
an architecture exhibition.