A film and an exhibition focus on the interaction between the Bauhaus and Japan, based on two houses in the suburbs of Tokyo - Migishi Atelier and Bunzo Yamaguchi House. Both houses were designed in the 1930s/40s by Japanese architects, Iwao Yamawaki (1898-1987), a student at the Bauhaus, and Bunzo Yamaguchi (1902-1978), who worked in Walter Gropius' practice at that time, and are privately owned. The film documents the buildings’ architecture and tells the story of their inhabitants, providing glimpses of their current lives in and with the buildings.
Screening and opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, 24 April 2019, 18.00
Exhibition: Thursday, 25 April to Wednesday, 15 May 2019
A project of the Chair of Design and Housing, funded by the Thüringer Staatskanzlei and the Alumni Office at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.