How Did Architects Respond Immediately after 3/11?

Press Release
6 October 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Japan Foundation’s Exhibition:
“How Did Architects Respond Immediately after 3/11?
(The Great East Japan Earthquake)”

The Consulate-General of Japan, in cooperation with the School of Architecture and Planning, the University of Auckland, is very pleased to introduce the Japan FoundationTravelling exhibition.

Images of the devastation following the powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake in East Japan in 2011 are still fresh in our minds. This exhibition highlights how architects have come together in the face of tragedy to share their knowledge and passion in the common goal of helping affected residents piece their lives back together.

The exhibition is presented in an easy-to-follow format using visual and text panels, models and video presentations. It takes the viewer on a journey from the initial disaster relief efforts, to support for displaced residents and ultimately to the rebuild of affected regions. It features proposals from various architects, including Shigeru Ban, who is widely recognised in New Zealand for his design of the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch.

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