The research project Two Houses at the Chair of Design and Housing at the Bauhaus University Weimar focuses on the interaction between the Bauhaus and Japan through two houses in a suburb of Tokyo - the Migishi Atelier and the Bunzo Yamaguchi House. Both houses were designed in the 1930s and 40s by Japanese architects Iwao Yamawaki (1898-1987), a student of the Bauhaus in Dessau, and Bunzo Yamaguchi (1902-1978), who worked in Walter Gropius' office at the time, and are still privately owned.
The film Two Houses documents the architecture of the buildings, tells the story of their inhabitants, and provides insights into life in and with the houses. It is accompanied by the publication Two Houses - Texte, which includes interviews with Helena Čapková, Terunobu Fujimori, Taishi Watanabe, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, as well as texts and images from the film and drawings of the houses in various stages.
Two Houses
2019, 38 min
Director: Verena von Beckerath
Assistant directors: Niklas Fanelsa, Momoko Yasaka, Maximilian von Zepelin
Camera, sound, editing: Jens Franke
Produced by: Bauhaus University Weimar
Film screening Two Houses
Bauhaus Museum Weimar
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1
99423 Weimar
Presentation
14.10.2022 at 7:00 pm
Screenings during the Triennale der Moderne
14.10.-16.10.2022
The film will be shown every hour on the hour.
Link to the full program of the Triennale der Moderne: www.triennale-der-moderne.de/2022/weimar-schwerpunkt
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