"Curated by Shunsuke Kurakata, Satoshi Hachima, and Kenjiro Hosaka, it features a selection of 80 projects from Japan's 47 prefectures, including works by renowned Japanese architects such as 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, the designer of the Museum of Modern Art's renovation in New York Yoshio Taniguchi, celebrated landscape architect and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and 2019 Pritzker Prize laureate Arata Isozaki."
"The selection aims to offer a renewed perspective on Japan through innovative buildings, civil engineering projects, and landscape designs. Organized in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and presented with the support of the Consulate General of Japan in Montreal, the exhibition is conceived as a traveling project exploring the resilience of Japanese architecture and infrastructure in the face of natural disasters and climate change."
An exhibition at UQAM's Centre de design runs through January 25, 2026, presenting 80 projects from Japan's 47 prefectures. Curated by Shunsuke Kurakata, Satoshi Hachima, and Kenjiro Hosaka, the selection includes works by Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, Yoshio Taniguchi, Isamu Noguchi, and Arata Isozaki. The exhibition highlights innovative buildings, civil engineering efforts, and landscape designs that demonstrate adaptation to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and typhoons. The design foregrounds interactions between architecture, civil engineering, and landscape to propose a new understanding of Japanese territory. The project is organized with the Japan Foundation and supported by the Consulate General of Japan in Montreal as a traveling exploration of resilience and climate response.
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