Contemporary Japanese architects have created "a legacy with more consistency" than the famous names that dominate architecture elsewhere, says the curator of a major new MoMA exhibition (+ slideshow).
MoMA's show, which is titled A Japanese Constellation, focuses on the work of three generations of Japanese architects, including Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and SANAA, and Sou Fujimoto.
The exhibition's curator Pedro Gadanho told Dezeen that this group were unlike other famous architects working today, who "find a formal or stylistic recipe and just keep repeating it any new situation, and therefore exhaust a certain creative input".
MoMA's new exhibition presents the work of three generation of Japanese architects in the form of models, drawings and projected slideshows "I think what is different is that these [Japanese] architects have really cherished and cultivated the idea that their peers, and some of their disciples, can all bring something to the mix," said Gadanho, "and they all benefit from sharing themes, influences, information and even supporting each other in terms of competitions."
"It is way more beneficial because it leaves a legacy that has more consistency and can spread an influence more resistant to time," he added.

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