festival<\/a> brings together Japan\u2019s most celebrated modernists and the country\u2019s emerging voices. Tadao Ando\u2019s Onomichi City Museum of Art hosts Nine Visions: Japanese Architects from Japan to the World, a survey of all nine Japanese recipients of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The exhibition traces the profound Japanese influence on global architectural discourse through the works of Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, Shigeru Ban, Arata Isozaki, and Riken Yamamoto. In front of the museum, Shigeru Ban\u2019s Paper Log House, originally developed for disaster relief after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, stands as a symbol of social responsibility in architecture.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nearby, Studio Mumbai has renovated the 1960s building LOG into a combined exhibition space and hotel. The project includes an interactive display that explores how people\u2019s everyday lives connect with design. This adaptive reuse effort, now attracting about 30,000 visitors a year, shows how craftsmanship and thoughtful use of materials can root modern architecture in the existing character of a city. Similarly, Junya Nagasaka\u2019s LLOVE HOUSE Onomichi turns an abandoned home into a lively center for cultural exchange. Photographer Yurika Takano\u2019s exhibition, Transferring Bodies, Transferring Architecture, complements this by capturing Onomichi\u2019s historic streets and how they have changed over time.<\/p>\n
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the festival brings together 23 architects and artists from Japan and abroad<\/p>\n
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fukuyama: architecture as a living ecosystem<\/p>\n
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In Fukuyama, Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens presents Next Architecture: Connecting Futures Through Design, featuring works by Sou Fujimoto, Junya Ishigami, Norihisa Kawashima, Hiroki Akiyoshi, president of VUILD, and Clouds Architecture Office. Through models and proposals, the exhibition explores how architecture, the environment, and society interact, imagining how future cities could better live in balance with nature and culture.<\/p>\n
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Within the same temple grounds, Kenzo Tange\u2019s self-designed residence, originally built in Tokyo\u2019s Seijo neighborhood in 1953 and later demolished, is the subject of a preview exhibition for a planned reconstruction project in Fukuyama. The display includes a one-third-scale model and archival material that contextualizes Tange\u2019s legacy and influence on postwar Japanese architecture. Complementing these exhibitions is Norihisa Kawashima\u2019s Compost Bench, a circular environmental project that transforms fallen leaves from the maple trees around the temple into compost to nourish them anew.<\/p>\n
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Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens presents Next Architecture: Connecting Futures Through Design<\/p>\n
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Temporary Pavilions Shape the Landscape<\/p>\n
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A series of small, movable pavilions, described as micro-architectures, punctuate the urban landscape throughout Hiroshima International Architecture Festival 2025. Designed by Yasushi Horibe, Junya Ishigami, and Hideyuki Nakayama, each kiosk interprets the notion of transience and locality in a different way. Horibe\u2019s Tsuboya functions as a small tea stand at Shinshoji Temple, while Nakayama\u2019s Kiosk Through Which the Landscape Passes (Catch) stands by the waterfront at Onomichi U2. Ishigami\u2019s Clouds Descend, planned as the festival\u2019s information center at Fukuyama Station, was delayed in transit due to a typhoon, a reminder, perhaps, of architecture\u2019s delicate relationship with the natural world.<\/p>\n
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the program reveals how Japanese architecture continues to evolve | image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n
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cultivating a new culture<\/p>\n
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The organizers of the Hiroshima International Architecture Festival see the event as a platform to nurture creativity, education, and civic imagination using architecture as a tool for regional regeneration and intergenerational dialogue. Alongside the exhibitions, the program includes talks and public discussions with leading figures such as Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, and Junya Ishigami, as well as workshops for children and film screenings.<\/p>\n
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The greatest achievement of the festival may be its integration of architecture with place, allowing audiences to inhabit design. By placing together historical temples, modern museums, and lived cityscapes, the event transforms Hiroshima Prefecture into a landscape of ideas. With its next edition planned for 2028, the festival\u2019s debut suggests the beginning of a meaningful, long-term dialogue, one that could evolve into Japan\u2019s answer to the Venice Architecture Biennale.<\/p>\n
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