[Special Lecture Series for Members] Akira MINAGAWA+Tsuyoshi TANE Special Talk

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  • Speakers:
    ・Akira Minagawa (designer / founder of Minä Perhonen)
    ・Tsuyoshi Tane (Architect)
  • Date: Monday, April 17, 2023, 6:30-8:30 pm (including reception)
  • Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall
  • Language: Japanese (without interpretation)
  • Admission: 5,000 yen/person (registraion required)
    *This event is exclusively for I-House members.

Akira Minagawa launched Minä (now Minä Perhonen) in 1995 with the hope that the brand would last at least a hundred years. He has since continued to think about the future through the perspective of design.

A Paris-based architect, Tsuyoshi Tane draws inspiration from memories associated with land and place, helping to preserve and pass down such legacies to future generations through architectural design.

The two will share their core ideas using such keywords as memory, history, future, inheritance, the environment, thought, and continuity.

The discussion will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a reception.

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Akira Minagawa(designer / founder of Minä Perhonen)

Akira Minagawa founded Minä in 1995 prior to Minä Perhonen.
With a focus on textile design, based primarily on hand-drawn patterns, Minagawa engages in design activities that truly integrate into daily life, such as garment making, furniture and tableware designs, and spatial direction of stores and accommodations. Minagawa has provided designs for Kvadrat (Denmark), KLIPPAN (Sweden), and GINORI 1735 (Italian pottery label) and worked on illustrations for newspapers and magazines.

photograph: Shoji Onuma

Tsuyoshi Tane (Architect)

Photo: Tsuyoshi TaneTsuyoshi Tane is a Japanese architect based in Paris. He founded ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in Paris France, after being co-founder of DGT. Tsuyoshi believes in the idea of architecture belongs to a memory of the place that creates an architecture for the future as his concept – “Archaeology of the Future”. His major works are the best known for the creation of “the Estonian National Museum”(2016), “Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art”(2020), “The Al Thani Collection”(2021) and currently working on the “Imperial Hotel Tokyo”. (To be completed in 2036). He has received numerous awards and honors, including, Grand Prix AFEX 2021 – French Architects Overseas, the Metal of Jean-Dejean Prize of the French Académie d’Architecture, Estonian Cultural Endowment Grand Prix, nomination for the European Union Mies van der Rohe Award 2017 and 67th Japanese Ministry new face Award of Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. He published the monograph “TSUYOSHI TANE Archaeology of the Future” (TOTO publisher).
www.at-ta.fr

photograph: Yoshiaki Tsutsui