LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s-1970s

March 19 (Wed), 2025 - June 30 (Mon), 2025

Upcoming Exhibitions
Special Exhibitions

Beginning in the 1920s, architects including Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe explored new residential designs with function and comfort in mind. Their experimental visions and innovative ideas eventually intersected with everyday life, greatly reshaping people’s lifestyles.
This exhibition focuses on seven dimensions of modern houses: hygiene, materials, windows, kitchen, furnishings, media, and landscape. Approximately 14 masterworks of residential architecture spanning the world will be presented in detail through photographs and drawings, sketches, models, furniture, textiles, tableware, magazines, graphics, and films.
The modernity of this residential architecture in this exhibition continues to resonate today, offering an opportunity to reflect on our own living spaces and ways of living.

Overview

Period

March 19 (Wed), 2025 – June 30 (Mon), 2025

Closed on Tuesdays, May7
(Open on April 29, May 6)

Opening Hours

10:00-18:00
(Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00-20:00)
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Venue

The National Art Center, Tokyo
Special Exhibition Gallery 1E, 2E
7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558

Organized by

The National Art Center, Tokyo; The Tokyo Shimbun; Japan Arts Council; Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
日本博

With the support of
Architectural Institute of Japan / The Japan Institute of Architects

With the sponsorship of
KAJIMA CORPORATION / TOTO LTD. / HASEKO Corporation / YKK AP Inc. /
Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. / Fujiki Komuten Co.,Ltd.

With the cooperation of
MISAWA HOMES CO., LTD. / TAKENAKA CORPORATION / Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd. / arc co., ltd. /
USHIO LIGHTING, INC.

Admission (tax included)

1,800 yen (Adults), 1,000 yen (College students), 500yen (High school students)
*Visitors who are junior high school students or younger will be admitted for free.
*Disabled persons (along with the one assistant) will be admitted for free upon presenting the Disabled Person’s Booklet or an equivalent form of government-issued ID.

A part of exhibition area can be viewed admission free.

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