Ein Stein Tea House and Other Archi­tec­tures
Sun 12 am – 5 pm

The Ein Stein Tea House was planned and realized over a year and now forms an exhibit on a scale of 1:1, which will be preserved by the Stiftung Insel Hombroich. It reflects the precise knowledge of the history and prin­ci­ples of the tea ceremony and its very personal inter­pre­ta­tion by the architect and historian Terunobu Fujimori. In parti­cular, natural materials such as untreated robinia trunks and a wooden boarding carbo­nized by the tradi­tional Yakisugi method were used.
Exhi­bi­tion:
The architect Terunobu Fujimori (*1946) rese­ar­ched, taught and published as a historian before he developed his first own design at the age of 45. Since then, he has realized projects that have received strong inter­na­tional attention. In his tea houses as well as in his large buildings, he uses natural materials and distin­gu­ishes himself from common formal languages with stubborn ideas.
The exhi­bi­tion Terunobu Fujimori. Ein Stein Tea House and other Archi­tec­tures was developed together with the Japanese architect. The selection of projects focuses on tea houses he planned, in parti­cular the Ein Stein Tea House designed for the Rake­ten­sta­tion Hombroich and its genesis. Like other buildings and furniture on display, the tea houses are charac­te­rized by the use of natural materials and their rela­ti­onship to the surroun­ding landscape.
Karl Heinrich Müller, the founder of Museum Insel Hombroich, had a special interest in the tea ceremony as well as in objects and works of art from the context of this centuries-old tradition. The Foun­da­ti­on’s coll­ec­tion includes numerous tea bowls and other vessels that were used in cere­mo­nies. A selection not previously shown is on display.
Terunobu Fujimori combines a socio­lo­gical interest with a neo-dadaist sensi­bi­lity by  capturing absurd situa­tions in Japanese urban space in photo­graphs and drawings since the early 1970s. In 1986, together with Genpei Akasegawa, Joji Hayashi, Tetsuo Matsuda and Shinbo Minami, he formed the ROJO Society for Roadside Obser­va­tion Studies, whose obser­va­tions the exhi­bi­tion provides insight into.

Curated by Frank Boehm with Leonhard Panzen­böck.