Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibition “Built Environment: An Alternative Guide to Japan”
2025/11/2
From October 16th to November 2nd, the Embassy of Japan hosted the traveling exhibition “Built Environment: An Alternative Guide to Japan” in collaboration with the Japan Foundation. This traveling exhibition has been held in 40 cities in 22 countries since 2018.
The exhibition presented the built environment of the various of regions of a country that is geographically diverse and often struck by natural disasters, with the aim of examining how Japanese people have engaged and struggled with the natural environment and how they have carried on and created regional characteristics. This was achieved by featuring 80 examples of buildings, civil engineering works and landscapes from all the prefectures of Japan, through photographs, text and video images.
More than 300 people visited the exhibition, including professional architects and students studying architecture or civil engineering. Rather than featuring famous historical sites, the exhibition allowed the public to discover structures and buildings from all over Japan that have rarely been considered an aspect of the country.
The exhibition presented the built environment of the various of regions of a country that is geographically diverse and often struck by natural disasters, with the aim of examining how Japanese people have engaged and struggled with the natural environment and how they have carried on and created regional characteristics. This was achieved by featuring 80 examples of buildings, civil engineering works and landscapes from all the prefectures of Japan, through photographs, text and video images.
More than 300 people visited the exhibition, including professional architects and students studying architecture or civil engineering. Rather than featuring famous historical sites, the exhibition allowed the public to discover structures and buildings from all over Japan that have rarely been considered an aspect of the country.
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Photo by Ken Ohyama
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Photo by Takuya Omura
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Photo courtesy of Onagawa Town
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Photo courtesy of The Former Kaichi School
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Photo by Toshiharu Kitajima
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Selected exhibited examples of built environment
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