Post-war architect Kazuo Shinohara is celebrated across Japan, the US and continental Europe but remains little known in the UK. He pioneered the idea that 'A House is Art' but artistic responses to his architecture have been scarce. His designs for single-family houses reconfigured people's understanding of domesticity but commentary on his work has excluded the voices and positions of women.
In the centenary year of Shinohara's birth, artist Michaela Nettell is making a book that brings together new interpretations of his 1961 Umbrella House by a group of women working across fine art, filmmaking, creative writing, architecture and Japanese calligraphy.
Join the artist and her collaborators to hear more about their research; watch a new 8mm study of Umbrella House alongside filmmaker Emily Richardson's House Works trilogy (2020) and artist Emily Speed’s Tate Liverpool-commissioned film Flatland (2021); and pick up a copy of newly-published Risograph pamphlet 'a totally different world.'
Event chaired by architectural writer and curator Yuki Sumner.
