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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
Comments Detailed wood joinery like this assembly of a bracket complex will be included in the Japan Society exhibit, “When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan.” Photo courtesy of Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum.
As its first exhibition upon reopening to the public, Japan Society will present “When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan.”
Opening on the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the exhibition celebrates the resilient spirit of Japanese architecture and craftsmanship through woodworking tools, architectural patterns, and models.
The site-specific exhibition design, conceived by the esteemed architect Sou Fujimoto in collaboration with Brooklyn-based Popular Architecture, highlights an enduring connection between traditional Japanese wooden construction and modern architecture.