The Two Houses research project at the Chair of Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar focuses on the interaction between the Bauhaus and Japan, based on two houses in the suburbs of Tokyo – Migishi Atelier and Bunzo Yamaguchi House. Both houses were designed in the 1930s and 40s by Japanese architect Iwao Yamawaki (1898-1987), a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau, and Bunzo Yamaguchi (1902-1978), who worked in Walter Gropius' practice at that time, and are still privately owned today. The film Two Houses documents the buildings’ architecture and tells the story of their inhabitants, providing glimpses of life in and with the buildings. It is accompanied by the publication Two Houses – Texts which includes interviews with Helena Čapková, Terunobu Fujimori, Taishi Watanabe and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto as well as texts and images from the film and drawings of the houses in different stages.
Two Houses
2019, 38 min
Director: Verena von Beckerath
Assistant directors: Niklas Fanelsa, Momoko Yasaka, Maximilian von Zepelin
Camera, Sound, Editing: Jens Franke
Produced by: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
 
Bauhaus-Museum Weimar
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1
99423 Weimar
Presentation
14.10.2022 at 19:00
Screenings during the Triennale der Moderne
14.10.–16.10.2022
The film will be screened at every full hour

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