International Symposium “Building Architectural Curation”
Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
The Mori Art Museum is currently engaged in the Global Art Professionals Development Project, with the aim of nurturing mid-career and young curators based in Japan. In 2025, we are focusing on the field of architecture, and holding an international symposium and curatorial workshop.
The symposium entitled “Building Architectural Curation” will bring together internationally-active directors and curators specializing in architecture to introduce the latest trends and ideas in the curation of architectural exhibitions, a topic rarely discussed in Japan.
Additionally, we will be joined by Sou Fujimoto, whose solo exhibition, The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest, is currently on view at the Mori Art Museum, to discuss how architectural exhibitions can approach the challenges of contemporary society, as well as the position and potential for development of architectural exhibition curation in Japan, and how to lay the foundations for its establishment.
- Date and Time
- 15:00-18:00, Sunday, October 5, 2025 (Doors Open: 14:30)
- Appearing
- Carson Chan (Architecture Curator, Writer)
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (Helen Hilton Raiser Curator and Head of Architecture and Design Department, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Ekaterina Golovatyuk (Architect, Researcher, Co-founder of GRACE)
Sou Fujimoto (Architect) - Moderator
- Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum)
Carson Chan
Carson Chan is an architecture curator and writer. Most recently he served as the inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), where he was also Curator of Architecture and Design. At MoMA, Chan developed, led, and implemented the Ambasz Institute’s manifold research initiatives through a range of programs, including exhibitions, public lectures, conferences, seminars, and publications. He curated the 4th Marrakech Biennale (with Nadim Samman) in 2012 and appointed Executive Curator of the Biennial of the Americas in Denver the year after. Chan’s writing appears regularly in books, catalogs, and periodicals, including Frieze, Texte zur Kunst, and 032c, where he was Editor-at-Large.
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher is the Helen Hilton Raiser Curator and Head of Architecture and Design Department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Since 2008, she has organized several key acquisitions and exhibitions with a focus on bold visionary works of design from the late 20th century to today. Recent curatorial projects include Get in the Game (2024) (co-curator); Conversation Pieces (2022); Nature x Humanity: OXMAN Architects (2022); Tatiana Bilbao Estudio (2021); Far Out: Suits, Habs and Labs for Outer Space (co-curator) (2019), and The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment and Idealism (co-curator) (2018.) Prior to SFMOMA, she worked in curatorial positions at The Getty Research Institute, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the Hammer Museum. She holds a B.A. in Art History from New York University in Art History, a M.A in Curatorial Studies from Bard College and a M.Des in Architecture History and Theory from Harvard University.
Ekaterina Golovatyuk
Ekaterina Golovatyuk is a Russian architect and researcher, co-founder of GRACE, based in Milan. She collaborated long-term with OMA/AMO, overseeing the design of the Garage Museum for Contemporary Art in Moscow and the educational program for the post graduate school of Architecture, Media and Design “Strelka” in Moscow. GRACE focuses on exhibition design, museum architecture, and preservation, exploring new narratives that go beyond the conventional “white cube” and examining the relationship between artworks and their spatial context. The studio places particular emphasis on the preservation of 20th-century architecture; in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, it collaborated with researchers to revise legal frameworks and develop strategies for protecting 24 modernist buildings. In 2025, GRACE co-curated the Uzbekistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, highlighting the Sun Institute of Materials Science, which features a solar furnace.
Sou Fujimoto
Born 1971 in Hokkaido, Japan. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. Among his recent renowned projects is the 1st prize for the 2014 International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier, France [L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree)]. Additionally in 2015, 2017 and 2018, he won several international competitions with the 1st prize in various European countries. In Japan, he was selected as the Expo site design producer for the 2025 Japan International Exposition (Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan). In 2024, he was selected as the designer of the International Center Station Northern Area Complex in Sendai, Japan (scheduled for completion in 2031). His notable works include; House of Music Hungary (2021, Budapest), Maruhon Makiart Terrace (2021, Miyagi, Japan), Shiroiya Hotel (2020, Gunma, Japan), L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree, 2019, Montpellier, France), Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 (London), House NA (2011, Tokyo), Musashino Art University Museum & Library (2010, Tokyo), House N (2008, Oita, Japan) and many more.
- Organizer
- Mori Art Museum
- Grants from
- Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Japan Arts Council
- Administration
- Centre for Co-Architecture Kyoto (CoAK)
- Support
- TOKYO NODE
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