Japan Society opens new exhibit in NYC celebrating Japanese architecture
News 12 Staff
Updated on:May 20, 2021, 8:26am EDT
The Japan Society has a new exhibit that celebrates a century of Japanese architecture and woodworking craftsmanship through a fully immersive experience.
The Japan Society reopened in March with a new exhibit called, When practice becomes form: Carpentry tools from Japan. The exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the of the Japan Society s headquarters in New York City. This is really the place to come to experience Japanese culture and the relation between the U.S. and Japan, and the bridges between those two cultures, says Tiffany Lambert, the assistant curator of the Japan Society. What you’ll see here is a full immersion into that culture and something that I don’t think you can quite get anywhere else.
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When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan showcases the invisible structures that underlie traditional building.
The first thing a visitor encounters upon entering
When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan at New York City’s Japan Society, is the faint aroma of sawdust. A combination of cypress and cedar, this subtle scent pervades three halls filled with building models, traditional hand tools, and joinery displays, reinforcing the fact that the root of traditional Japanese building is the tree.
Plentiful in that heavily forested archipelago, timber was the material of choice for the everyday architecture of dwellings and shops as well as for sacred spaces such as of temples and shrines, though the show focuses on the design, construction, and preservation of large temple buildings. Everything in this exhibition, from ceiling height models detailing the design of bridges and roofs to an extensive selection of hand saws, chisels, and plane