Join us Onsite at the Stanley Picker Gallery from 6pm for a tour of the exhibition’Under Construction’ by Takeshi Hayatsu and Collaborators.
Following the tour, at 6.30pm we will move to the Atrium of the Architecture & Landscape Department at Kingston School of Art for a talk by KSA Architecture tutor Takeshi Hayatsu. Hayatsu will present materials related to the exhibition and the series of live build projects since 2011, which he led and developed in collaboration with students, community partners and local residents around Kingston, Surbiton, Tolworth and beyond.
About the exhibition
Under Construction by Takeshi Hayatsu & Collaborators is an evolving collaborative architecture project, under construction at the Stanley Picker Gallery throughout 14 September – 20 December 2024. The exhibition surveys more than a decade of ambitious live-build projects guided by architect Takeshi Hayatsu, working with Kingston University Architecture & Landscape students and a growing cohort of participants and community partners (including The Community Brain, Citizen Zoo, 121 Collective and more). Since 2011, these projects have provided imaginative and highly resourceful responses to their chosen locations in collaboration with diverse communities.
Under Construction presents a selection of these past projects through tactile materials, highlighting different craft techniques, scale models, and re-constructed structures built for the exhibition by 121 Collective, itself formed of alumni of Hayatsu. The women’s film collective w.in.c has created a short documentary focussing on Hayatsu’s approach to teaching through making, his community centred ethos, and the haptic methodologies of the various builds, whilst the accumulative publication provides a summary of each project to date.
Throughout the exhibition an entirely new live build will take place at the Stanley Picker Gallery, developed with the 2024-25 cohort of Unit 5 MArch students from the Department of Architecture and Landscape at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University. This will include a temporary rammed earth Shrine outside the entrance and a Sauna on the Gallery’s riverside terrace.
More information about the exhibition HERE.