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Verena von Beckerath, Niklas Fanelsa, Momoko Yasaka, Maximilian von Zepelin in collaboration with Jens Franke

Weimar, Germany
Verena von Beckerath is an architect based in Berlin and professor at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Niklas Fanelsa is an architect and founder of Atelier Fanelsa in Berlin and Gerswalde. Momoko Yasaka is an architect and is currently working for Weyell Zipse in Basel. Maximilian von Zepelin is an architect and is currently working for Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin in Zurich. Jens Franke is an artist based in Berlin who focuses on topics concerning architecture and urban planning.

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Two Houses


2019, 38 min

Two Houses


2019, 38 min
»The stills produce a series of emotions about architecture, but also represent a bigger issue about these houses as homes. We witness the decay, we feel the energy of the inhabitants and we empathise with the ways people change the houses they live in.« Helena Čapková
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  • Site-specific cases

The Two Houses research project at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar focuses on the interaction between the Bauhaus and Japan, based on two houses in the suburbs of Tokyo – Migishi Atelier and Bunzo Yamaguchi House. Both houses were designed in the 1930s and 40s by Japanese architect Iwao Yamawaki, a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau, and Bunzo Yamaguchi, who worked in Walter Gropius' practice at that time, and are still privately owned today. The film Two Houses (2019) documents the buildings’ architecture and tells the story of their inhabitants, providing glimpses of life in and with the buildings. It is accompanied by the publication Two Houses – Texts which includes interviews with Helena Čapková, Terunobu Fujimori, Taishi Watanabe and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto as well as texts and images from the film and drawings of the houses in different stages. A starting point for a debate about domestic architecture, common heritage and speculations about the future home?


Two Houses


2019, 38 min

Two Houses


2019, 38 min
»The stills produce a series of emotions about architecture, but also represent a bigger issue about these houses as homes. We witness the decay, we feel the energy of the inhabitants and we empathise with the ways people change the houses they live in.« Helena Čapková
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

The Two Houses research project at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar focuses on the interaction between the Bauhaus and Japan, based on two houses in the suburbs of Tokyo – Migishi Atelier and Bunzo Yamaguchi House. Both houses were designed in the 1930s and 40s by Japanese architect Iwao Yamawaki, a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau, and Bunzo Yamaguchi, who worked in Walter Gropius' practice at that time, and are still privately owned today. The film Two Houses (2019) documents the buildings’ architecture and tells the story of their inhabitants, providing glimpses of life in and with the buildings. It is accompanied by the publication Two Houses – Texts which includes interviews with Helena Čapková, Terunobu Fujimori, Taishi Watanabe and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto as well as texts and images from the film and drawings of the houses in different stages. A starting point for a debate about domestic architecture, common heritage and speculations about the future home?



Idea by

Verena von Beckerath, Niklas Fanelsa, Momoko Yasaka, Maximilian von Zepelin in collaboration with Jens Franke
Weimar
Germany
Verena von Beckerath is an architect based in Berlin and professor at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Niklas Fanelsa is an architect and founder of Atelier Fanelsa in Berlin and Gerswalde. Momoko Yasaka is an architect and is currently working for Weyell Zipse in Basel. Maximilian von Zepelin is an architect and is currently working for Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin in Zurich. Jens Franke is an artist based in Berlin who focuses on topics concerning architecture and urban planning.