Step inside the brutalist architecture of the Barbican and you are transported to the other side of the world via their current ‘The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945’ exhibition. The exhibition begins by outlining the history and context of Japanese domestic post-war architecture. Photography, contemporary film clips, architectural drawings, model houses, maquettes, and a reconstructed Japanese tea-room all help explain a very different ‘home’ to those inhabited in Europe. You are then free to roam around reconstructions of rooms, including a full-size recreation of the Moriyama House and gardens. It’s well worth a visit and those bathrooms will leave you questioning a lot…
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Until Sun 25th June 2017
Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
barbican.org.uk