Make Do With Now: New Directions in Japanese Architecture
Lecture
25Jun
In his exhibition “Make Do With Now”, curated in 2022, Yuma Shinohara focussed on a young generation of architects in Japan whose work is driving the current architecture of the region and who have been little known to date. In his lecture, he presents five of these up-and-coming architecture firms whose creative use of limited resources, found materials and existing building fabric responds to the pressing issues of our time.
‘Make Do With Now’ sheds light on an emerging generation of architects and urban practitioners in Japan. Largely entering professional practice following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, this generation is developing a range of critical, ecological, and social approaches that creatively ‘make do’ – with limited resources, found materials, and existing spaces – while seeking appropriate responses to the urgent problems of the present. Turning their backs on the traditional image of the architect-author, these practitioners are articulating a new architectural agency in working from the periphery, exploiting gaps in the system, and occupying new roles in the process that have previously been overlooked.
Yuma Shinohara is a curator at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Before joining the S AM, he held editorial and curatorial positions at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Ruby Press, the Academy of Arts Berlin, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. At the S AM, Shinohara has curated the exhibitions What Was Could Be (2025) and Make Do With Now (2022) and co-curated the exhibitions SAY Swiss Architecture Yearbook (2023), Beton (2021), and Swim City (2019). He graduated in comparative literature and society from Columbia University in New York.
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