To build a house, means to perceive its inhabitants as your own.
Terunobu FUJIMORI
Praha, Brno - kvìten 2008
Versus Architekt o.s., Czech Centres Prague, Tokyo and Brno House of Arts, are proud of being able to prepare for you two lectures by Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori.
Fujimori is currently alongside Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito a key character on the Japanese architectural scene. In context Tadao Ando came nearest to the Czech Republic in 2005 while lecturing in Basilei, Switzerland. The Czech public will now also have the privilege of participating, first in Prague and then Brno, at lectures by an author with a Japanese point of view.
Fujimori is not only an architect but also an architectural historian. Since 1985 he works as a professor and “head of studio” at the University of Tokyo. European architects were closest to Fujimori’s work in 2006, during the Venice Bienalle, where he was exhibiting his own work and work of his group for observing small streets called Rojo of which he is the founder.
The latest English publication released, portraying his work and that of Isozaki, Ando and Kumo is a book dedicated to the current Teahouse project in Japan.
The character of Fujimori is also very interesting especially from the view of Czech architecture. As a historian he was involved with architects of Czech origin influencing Japanese modernism. Architects such as Raymond, Letzel, Feuerstein and Frank Lloyd Wright are important names and milestones in the development of Japanese architecture at the beginning of the 20th century.
