BUILT ENVIRONMENT: An Alternative Guide to Japan

Building Environments is a travelling exhibition of the Japan Foundation, and features 80 buildings, civil-engineering projects, and landscapes which cover all the 47 prefectures in Japan, which are introduced through photographs, texts and video images. It presents a rarely considered aspect of Japan, taking the built environment of the various regions of a country that is geographically diverse and often struck by natural disasters, with the aim of examining how Japanese people have engaged and struggled with the natural environment and how they have carried on and created locality.

Тhe presentation of the exhibition in North Macedonia is realized in collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje with the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of Japan.

Cover photography: Keihin Industrial Area. Photography by Ken Ohyama