WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

YKK AP Window Research Institute had supported the Japan Pavilion, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016.

We interviewed the architects and the venue designer by taking actual works as examples, and made up into a brochure and distributed in the Japan Pavilion, Venice Biennale.

Read the full interview here.

The 15th International Architecture Exhibition
Theme:　REPORTING FROM THE FRONT
Director:　Alejandro Aravena
Venues:　Giardini di Castello, Arsenale, etc.
Dates:　Saturday, May 28 – Sunday, November 27, 2016

The Japanese Pavilion
Theme:　en: art of nexus
Curator:　Yoshiyuki Yamana (Professor, Department of Architecture, Tokyo University of Science)
Production Committee:　Seiichi Hishikawa (Creative Director, Filmmaker/Photographer), Masaki Uchino (Editor), Masatake Shinohara (Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Osaka University)
Exhibitors:　Seiichi Hishikawa, mnm (Mio Tsuneyama), Osamu Nishida+Erika Nakagawa (Osamu Nishida, Erika Nakagawa) , Naruse Inokuma Architects (Jun Inokuma, Yuri Naruse), Naka Architects’ Studio (Toshiharu Naka, Yuri Uno), Nousaku Architects (Fuminori Nousaku, Junpei Nousaku), miCo. (Mizuki Imamura, Isao Shinohara), Levi Architecture (Jun Nakagawa), Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo Architects (Shingo Masuda, Katsuhisa Otsubo), Koji Aoki Architects (Koji Aoki), 403architecture [dajiba] (Takuma Tsuji, Takeshi Hashimoto, Toru Yada), BUS (Satoru Ito, Kosuke Bando, Issei Suma), dot architects (Toshikatsu Ienari, Takeshi Shakushiro, Wataru Doi)
Venue Design:　t e c o (Chie Konno, Rie Allison)