{"id":163029,"date":"2025-12-01T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163029\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:55:10","slug":"marina-tabassum-opens-people-place-poiesis-at-toto-gallery%c2%b7ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163029\/","title":{"rendered":"marina tabassum opens people place poiesis at toto gallery\u00b7ma"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOTO Gallery\u00b7MA Traces Marina Tabassum Architects\u2019 innovations<\/p>\n

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TOTO Gallery\u00b7MA<\/a> hosts People Place Poiesis, an exhibition <\/a>that traces how Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)<\/a> reshapes architecture in Bangladesh<\/a> through climate-attuned design<\/a>, community agency, and lightweight systems built for a rapidly changing world. On view until February 15th, 2026, the show spans two floors and extends into the courtyard with a full-scale Khudi Bari, MTA\u2019s now-seminal flood-resilient housing<\/a> prototype, installed alongside a newly developed Japan-specific version built with architect Kazuya Morita and students from Kyoto Prefectural University. Previously presented in Munich and Lisbon, this Tokyo edition sharpens the spatial contrasts of the exhibition, placing rural, urban, and transnational responses in close conversation.<\/p>\n

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images courtesy of TOTO GALLERY\u00b7MA, unless stated otherwise<\/p>\n

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A Journey Through Climate-Responsive Architecture<\/p>\n

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Visitors enter through a landscape of Marina Tabassum Architects\u2019s work<\/a> rooted in the riverine and agricultural regions of Bangladesh, a context where roughly one-third of the land can be submerged by seasonal flooding. Photographs, videos, and models, some originally shown at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, outline the spatial, environmental, and social challenges shaping everyday life outside Dhaka.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The upper floor shifts toward Dhaka\u2019s dense neighborhoods, spotlighting MTA\u2019s civic and community-oriented buildings. Community centers, mosques, and public spaces illustrate how the practice uses geometry, brick, and ventilation strategies to create openness without mechanical cooling. The acclaimed Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, built from locally fired bricks and conceived as a serene, breezy sanctuary, becomes a key reference point. A model of the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion adds another layer, showing how MTA translates its climate-responsive principles into a global context.<\/p>\n

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TOTO Gallery\u00b7MA hosts People Place Poiesis | image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n

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khudi bari: mobility, empowerment, and translocal adaptation<\/p>\n

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Anchoring the exhibition is Khudi Bari, the compact, easily assembled shelter designed for people displaced by flooding or forced migration. Built from lightweight components that local communities can erect and dismantle themselves, the structure doubles as emergency relief and everyday dwelling. Through F.A.C.E. (Foundation for Architecture and Community Equity), Tabassum\u2019s team deploys these units across Bangladesh and adapts them into larger configurations, including a community center within the Rohingya refugee camps.<\/p>\n

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At Gallery\u00b7MA, the original Bangladeshi Khudi Bari stands in dialogue with a \u2018Japanese version,\u2019 constructed with local materials and techniques in collaboration with Morita\u2019s laboratory. The pairing highlights how a design born from Bangladesh\u2019s deltaic conditions can be reinterpreted within Japan\u2019s satoyama landscapes.<\/p>\n

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tracing how Marina Tabassum Architects reshapes architecture in Bangladesh<\/p>\n

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the show spans two floors and extends into the courtyard | image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n

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this Tokyo edition sharpens the spatial contrasts of the exhibition<\/p>\n

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Aggregation Center model | image \u00a9 designboom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOTO Gallery\u00b7MA Traces Marina Tabassum Architects\u2019 innovations \u00a0 TOTO Gallery\u00b7MA hosts People Place Poiesis, an exhibition that traces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[97793,437,434,435,436,438,146,6545,85,46,39807,97794],"class_list":{"0":"post-163029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-in-bangladesh","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-exhibitions","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-marina-tabassum","19":"tag-toto-gallery-ma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}