OPENINGS 2/4. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Public Lecture
Academy of Architecture
Date: 5 March 2026 / 18:30 - 20:30
Public Lectures
OPENINGS
Curated by Enrique Walker
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo
“Community”
Followed by a conversation with Enrique Walker
Thursday 5 March 2026 6:30 pm
Accademia di architettura USI, Mendrisio
Palazzo Canavée, Agorà Lio Galfetti
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Born in Kanagawa in 1965, he is Co-founder of Tokyo based Architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow together with Momoyo Kaijima in 1992.
Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo (former Tokyo Institute of Technology) and director of general incorporated association Small Earth.
His works in diverse fields ranging from architecture, public space, furniture, field survey, education, art exhibition, curation, and writing, are based on the theory called “Behaviorology”, aiming reconstruction of Commons through making better accessibility to local resources.
Wolf Prize Laureate in Architecture, 2022.
Openings is a series of keynote lectures organized by architecture critic Enrique Walker and hosted at the beginning of each semester at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, from September 2025 to February 2027. It brings together four architecture practices, which are invited to revisit certain of their projects, and stage a conversation on their work and architecture culture at large. The series focuses in particular on the concepts that followed the design of a project; on the arguments that derived from, were triggered by, or potentially outlived the making of a building. In other words, it examines architecture in hindsight, by virtue of storytelling, to point to those moments that might have instigated a finding, a definition, an opening.
The Lecture is streamed live on www.arc.usi.ch