Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa

The 7th Exhibition
"Cityscapes in Anime Background Art"

Exhibition Statement of Purpose

Unlike live action film making, in animated films everything is created from scratch, bringing unique levels of intentionality to every aspect of the worlds created: from the "natural" location to the "built" architectural environment,both exterior weather and interior designs, protagonists and their styling, and how the camera apprehends them.This exhibition presents the original meticulously drawn hand-drawn backgrounds from several of Japan's most iconic late 1980s ~ early 2000s sci-fi "anime" films, supplemented by interviews with core creatives,chronological tables, reference materials (notes, books, and location scouting photos, etc.), and architects' plans for these future cities.Experience these cities from their creators' perspectives, and see how theymerged reality and fiction.

• Organized by : Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa (Kanazawa Cultural Promotion Foundation)
• Subsidized by: The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences
• Supervised by: Taro Igarashi（ Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University）
• Curated by: Stefan Riekeles, Hiroko Myokam, Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa
  In Cooperation with: Kanazawa College of Art, Riekeles Gallery, Eizo Workshop G.K.
• Exhibit:
• ・AKIRA (1988／DIR.: Otomo Katsuhiro／ART DIR.: Toshiharu Mizutani)
• ・Patlabor: The Movie (1989／DIR.: Mamoru Oshii／ART DIR.: Hiromasa Ogura)
• ・Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993／DIR.: Mamoru Oshii／ART DIR.: Hiromasa Ogura)
• ・GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995／DIR.: Mamoru Oshii／ART DIR.: Hiromasa Ogura)
• ・Metropolis（2001／DIR.: Rintaro／ART DIR.: Shuichi Kusamori）
  ・Tekkonkinkreet (2006／DIR.: Michael Arias／ART DIR.: Shinji Kimura)

The ６th Exhibition
"The Creation of Public Architecture through Collaboration"
－Tokyo Sea Life Park & Hiroshima City Naka Incineration Plant－

Exhibition Statement of Purpose

Tokyo Sea Life Park and Hiroshima City Naka Incineration Plant are two highly frequented works of public architecture with celebrated, unorthodox designs by Yoshio Taniguchi. The purpose of this exhibition, “The Creation of Public Architecture through Collaboration,” is to show why these buildings enjoy such high reputations and how they came into being. We invite you to visit the exhibition and hope that it will provide an opportunity for a wider discussion and consideration of what the creation of public architecture through collaboration entails.

Ichiro Mizuno
Director
Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa

• Organized by : Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa (Kanazawa Cultural Promotion Foundation)
• Planning : "The Creation of Public Architecture through Collaboration-Tokyo Sea Life Park & Hiroshima City Naka Incineration Plant-" Executive Committee
• In Cooperation with : Taniguchi and Associates/ Kanazawa College of Art

Hours	9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (No admittance after 4:30 p.m.)
Admission fees	Adults 800 yen [700 yen] Seniors (65 and over) 600yen [600 yen] Children and Students (high school and younger): Free * [ ] Group rates for 20 and more * You can also see the permanent exhibition at the same time.
Closed	Mondays *When Monday is a national holiday, we will close the following weekday instead. *The museum may close to prepare for special exhibits