Encounters – with Kazuo Shinohara's Umbrella House
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'Encounters' is a collaborative research and publishing project around Kazuo Shinohara's 1961 Umbrella House. Bringing together contemporary responses to the building by international artists, architects and writers, the project offers timely new readings of Shinohara's work. Taking a practice-led approach and foregrounding the voices and positions of women, the project expands existing technical, historical and almost exclusively masculine narratives around one of the most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation.
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Encounters launch at Passengers/Gauld Architecture, 5 June 2026 »
Umbrella House at The 44th International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA), March 2026 »
Encounters with Umbrella House Crowdfunder, November 2025 »
Umbrella House at ArchFilm Lund, October 2025 »
Umbrella House film, Super 8mm transferred to DV, 2mins 45secs, 2025 »
New voices on Kazuo Shinohara, Talk, film screening and pamphlet launch at the Zaha Hadid Foundation, June 2025 »
Build your own Umbrella House, Family Day for London Festival of Architecture, June 2025 »
A totally different world, Edited excerpts of a roundtable conversation, 16pp Risograph pamphlet, June 2025 »
Researching Encounters on Women Writing Architecture, November 2024 »