Japanese architect and artist, Professor Terunobu Fujimori, has created a four metre high contemporary teahouse using burnt wood from bushfire affected areas in Victoria as part of the Shelter: On Kindness exhibition at the RMIT Gallery.
Professor Fujimori, a leading historian of modern Japanese architecture and an international reputation for his unique contemporary Japanese architecture, is using the burnt wood in his work as a symbolic homage to the loss of shelter experienced by the community.
Shelter: On Kindness is an exhibition inviting artists, architects, writers and thinkers to reflect on what qualities of environment and circumstance afford us shelter in a physical and metaphorical sense, as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Professor Fujimori is one of 50 architects and artists asked to explore concepts of shelter for the exhibition, which finishes on 25 October.
