2/2 Takeover Tour
6 PM, German
Takeover Tour with Kōichirō Sugiyama, architect, atelier tsu, Chur
‘Make Do With Now’ sheds light on an emerging generation of architects and urban practitioners in Japan. Largely entering professional practice following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, this generation is developing a range of critical, ecological, and social approaches that creatively ‘make do’ – with limited resources, found materials, and existing spaces – while seeking appropriate responses to the urgent problems of the present. Turning their backs on the traditional image of the architect-author, these practitioners are articulating a new architectural agency in working from the periphery, exploiting gaps in the system, and occupying new roles in the process that have previously been overlooked.
With its ‘Takeover Tours’ the S AM invites external experts to intervene in its exhibitions, offering their own interpretations of the objects on display through unique tours or providing annotations of the exhibition in dialogue with S AM curators.
On Thursday, 2 February, please join us in inviting Koichiro Sugiyama, architect and co-founder of atelier tsu in Chur, for a special tour through ‘Make Do With Now’ that will focus on the differences and similarities in architectural practice between Japan and Switzerland.
Koichiro Sugiyama Tsuchiya is a Japanese architect. After training in Tokyo, he worked on diverse projects at Atelier Peter Zumthor between 2014-21. In 2022, he established his own office, «atelier tsu», in Chur. In 2023, the office was registered for practice in Tokyo. Architecture, for them, is a composition of materials at a place, from a place, for a place. Their work stands in close relation to the architecture and culture of Japan and Switzerland.
Costs: Free with admission CHF 12.-, red. CHF 8.-
Participants are requested to register in advance via: event@sam-basel.org
Photo: Tom Bisig
