Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture
Tuesday, Feb 17, 20153:30 PM — Monday, Apr 20, 201511:59 PMEDT
| Boston Architectural College - McCormick Gallery - 320 Newbury St. Boston, MA
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Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture examines the material and social culture of bento boxes and how they inspire architects and designers to think about the potential of emptiness, craft, portability, and sustainability. Using miniature environments that individuals carry with them as a touchstone for good design, we explore formal and experiential principles. We share the story of one manufacturer of bento boxes and the art of making a carefully crafted boxed lunch in relation to the recipient, to the season, and to the maker's intent. Like good architecture, bento boxes are ordered and arranged, set within the landscape of furoshiki - a cloth that serves as both bag and placemat. Bento boxes from the collection of Debra Samuels, Japanese food specialist and cookbook author, and the work of architects and artists Hiromi Fujii, Sou Fujimoto, KOKO Architecture + Design, Glenn Murcutt, Hiroshi Nakamura, Patkau Architects, and Aat + Makoto Yokomizo create a dialogue between two scales of work: micro (bento) and macro (architecture). Each scale has its own ways of coming into being through transaction, materiality, modularity, mobility, completeness and compactness. Each work has an explicit function and an aspiration to hold cultural expression in its form. Free + open to the public. More info at http://www.the-bac.edu/experience-the-bac/news-and-events/events/bento-and-architecture-exhibition-event
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