TOTO
水のプロジェクト ラウムラボア・ベルリン
Water Works  raumlaborberlin
Published: September 2026
ISBN=978-4-88706-431-7
Unit price: 3,960JPY (tax included)
raumlaborberlin

250×182mm, 176pages, Japanese/English
Description of contents
raumlaborberlin, a collective of nine architects based in Berlin and operating worldwide, presents its first monograph in Japan. It features projects themed around “water,” selected from the collective’s wide-ranging activities. It also features documentation from a workshop held in Tokyo ahead of the exhibition at the TOTO GALLERY・MA scheduled for September 2026. This book encapsulates their research-backed, free-spirited ideas and practices that explore “how everyone uses a space” through bottom-up approaches and dialogue.
Profile
raumlaborberlin
raumlabor is a collective of nine members who share a background in architecture. As architects, artists, performers, inventors and curators, they have tapped into different spaces of action. The group developed in 1999 from a common interest in an expanded understanding of architecture, which has since been established as Urban Practice. raumlabor’ working method is situational and actionoriented, with a focus on the collaborative production of space as an open and unbiased process.
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Contents
Christopher Dell / Cooking in the Diagrammatic Zone
Raul Mabor / Introduction
Saale Onsen
KA NO / What Now?
Raul Mabor / In the Flow of Making
Allmänna Badet / Bathing Culture
Osten
Sammelstelle
Deep Encounter
Fountain House
Modes of Centrality
Cape Fear
Soft Democracies
Amembo Maru
Masayoshi Waku / Workshop log
Azby Brown / Our Water, Ourselves
zur kleinen Weile
Temple of No Shopping
Sedimente Insel 1, 2, 3, 4
Kläranlage
Silver Pearl
Working on Common Ground
Coop Campus
Floating University
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / Between raumlabor and Us