About the Exhibition

TOTO GALLERY·MA is pleased to present a Traveling Exhibition" Suzuko Yamada: parallel tunes " at the TOTO Museum (Kitakyushu, Fukuoka).

The world created by Suzuko Yamada—with its unexpected, free-form design and bold composition, striking use of color, and creations and installations brimming with vitality—sparks our imagination and breathes fresh life into architecture. She received numerous awards, including the 3rd Architectural Design Association of Nippon Grand Prize for her own residence “daita2019.” For the EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, she designed a rest area that created an environment where clusters of trees and man-made structures blended seamlessly. Recently, she has been expanding her scope of activities, notably by successfully realizing a tourist ranch renewal project and winning the first prize in a public library proposal competition.

Yamada, whose mother is a wildlife documentary director, grew up observing creatures thriving resiliently in the wild from a young age. Yamada's roots lie in a land where countless songs sung by diverse life forms echo through an eternal time of ever-changing landscapes.

“I want to create architecture that evokes countless songs resonating simultaneously,” says Yamada. The architecture she envisions is not one of ordered melodic beauty, but rather a polyphonic (multiple-voice) existence—noisy and bustling—where individual elements assert their presence, collide, and reverberate with one another, generating new harmonies. Yamada views today's increasingly complex world as polyphonic and embraces it, striving to create vibrant, dynamic environments.

This exhibition perceives the exhibition space as an environment, expressing the architect's unique world in which nature, living things, and landscapes resonate as they sing complex melodies. We look forward to your visit.