Encounters with Umbrella House: Book launch and Exhibition

Join us at Passengers on Friday 5 June, 6-9pm for a relaxed evening celebrating the launch of Michaela Nettell's new artist's book, Encounters with Kazuo Shinohara's Umbrella House.

With live readings at 7pm from: translator Polly Barton; artist filmmaker Emily Richardson; writer/curator Yuki Sumner; and architect and calligrapher Mónica Verdejo Ruiz; and a display of artworks and films by project contributors: Kevin Gauld & Julie F Hill, Sawako Nakayasu, Michaela Nettell, Ana Ruepp and Emily Speed.

Readings will be broadcast on Instagram Live @passen_gers

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Umbrella House (Tokyo, 1961) represents a pivotal moment in Shinohara’s career before he began moving away from decorative concerns towards his search for an abstract space. It was recently saved from demolition and reconstructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

Bringing together contemporary responses to the house by practitioners working across fine art, filmmaking, creative writing, architecture and calligraphy, Encounters offers timely new readings of Shinohara’s work. Foregrounding the voices and positions of women, the project expands existing technical, historical and almost exclusively masculine narratives around one of the most influential architects of Japan’s postwar generation.

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Part of London Festival of Architecture 2026. Supported by Arts Council England

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Passengers c/o Gauld Architecture, 110 Foundling Court, The Brunswick Centre, London, United Kingdom

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