Collection by Aaron Britt
Terunobu Fujimori at RMIT
Easily the best stumbled-upon finds of my trip to Melbourne, Australia, was the Black Teahouse, a small structure installed at the RMIT Gallery by Terunobu Fujimori and Jun Sakaguchi. I first came across Fujimori when we did a story on him for the magazine several months back, and since then I have wanted very much to visit one of his buildings. Just my luck that Fujimori had recently been in town and the students at RMIT constructed this exemplar of his work in conjunction with the exhibit Shelter: On Kindness. Check out the slideshow to see more. Photos by Jason Gec and me.
There were three blueprints on the wall next to the Black Teahouse, but this third one was my favorite. Fujimori's drawings have a wonderfully naive quality, and his depiction of the builders lifting the top half of the structure onto the base has a comic book charm and made me wish Ikea would employ the same kind of infographics.