Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery and on the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein
“When architecture is born, a place is born” opined Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane in 2018, continuing, “humans began to understand that by building architecture, a meaning is given to a place, and then that place has a story that can be passed on to others”.
But for Tane architecture doesn’t just bequeath a place meaning and a story, it also “gives memories to a place”, memories of the past and memories of the future, collective memories that help create bonds. But memories that are increasingly being lost in our complex, high-tempo, contemporary society, with all the inevitable consequences that has for an architecture that must grow organically from itself in unison with society; architecture and society which both need the memories of the past and the memories of future.
Thus, argues Tane, “to create the architecture of a more meaningful further future, perhaps we must … dive in to the past to think of the future, rather than only looking forward”.1
The exhibition Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery, and the eponymous Garden House by Tsuyoshi Tane, the latest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, allow one to approach not only a better appreciation of Tane’s positions but also to experience how they influence and inform his approach, his works, his architecture…….
An Eames Celebration @ The Vitra Design Museum
With their 1997 exhibition The Work of Charles and Ray Eames the Vitra Design Museum staged one of the first major Charles and Ray Eames retrospectives
Twenty years later they return to two of the 20th century’s most important creatives with An Eames Celebration: less of Charles and Ray, and more of the diversity, depth and continuing relevance of their work.
Vitra Design Museum presents Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
“Have you ever met a robot?” asks the Vitra Design Museum.
The answer is yes.
The answers to the other 13 questions posed by the exhibition Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine are not necessarily so easily answered: but are important for defining our relationship with digital technology.
smow blog 2014. A pictorial review: September
Following on from the relative inactivity of August September saw us wind back up towards the 2014 autumn design festival
Architektur Design Industrie – Vitra Campus. Ein Jubiläum at Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin
1989. A year of social, culture and political upheaval whose effects are still being felt today. The Berlin Wall falls. George
Vitra Campus Expands: Vitra Slide Tower and Álvaro-Siza-Promenade Open
Back in 2011 we took umbrage at the fence surrounding the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein and so, taking
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: December
What with mince pies to be eaten, Glühwein to get drunk and travel plans to misco-ordinate, December is generally a
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: July
Visiting the HfG Karlsruhe Sommerloch exhibition was not just a memorable highlight of July 2013 – but also fitting as
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: April
The biggest April fool is…. us, for always going to Milan! That said, as ever, we did find a few
(smow) reading: The Vitra Campus – Architecture Design Industry
There is an old adage about turning problems into chances, of every cloud having a silver lining, of every thorn
Prima by Zaha Hadid @ Vitra Campus
With our trademark “almost too late, but just sneaking in on time” we bring you Prima by Zaha Hadid. Conceived
Vitra Campus: SANAA Factory Building
In December 2012 Vitrashop, the shop fitting arm of the Vitra Group, and of course the original rock on which
The Fall of the Vitra Fence.
Back in March 2011 we bemoaned the position of the fence surrounding the Vitra production facility in Weil am Rhein,
The Vitra Fence
Last Friday we spent a highly enjoyable – and successful – day at and with Vitra. Texts to follow. We
VitraHaus by Herzog & De Meuron
Some 285 journalists were present for the press preview of Herzog & De Meuron’s new VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein
(smow)wintertour 2010: Weil am Rhein
When we were still young, fit and healthy, towns and cities existed. Just existed. These days in order to exist