12/17/2024
In 2015, the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto () arranged a collection of 40 everyday found objects—including potato chips, a stack of staples, a piece of packing Styrofoam, and an upturned ashtray—on plywood bases for his installation at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (), CAB 1.
“Architecture is Everywhere” operated on the premise that architecture is first found and then made. Just as our ancestors found their habitat in caves and woods, in modern times, we discover ours among the many things we encounter in this immense built jungle. Fujimoto’s installation suggested that innovative architectural ideas can be found in objects and spaces that often go unnoticed—that architecture, as well as its inspiration, is everywhere.
Accompanying the objects in “Architecture is Everywhere” were scale figures and enigmatic statements that made them representations of much larger structures. Fujimoto’s use of everyday objects to create architectural models challenges a long‑standing assumption about the role of models as tangible representations of an architect’s prior conception.
Swipe through and take a closer look at one of the crowd favorites of CAB 1.
, “Architecture Is Everywhere,” 2015
ProjectTeam: Sou Fujimoto, Masaki Iwata, Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Minako Suzuki, Hugh Hsu
