OPEN LLOVE HOUSE｜”Semi-Architecture" in Onomichi

• LLOVE HOUSE ONOMICHI
  Photo: Ryo Takatsuka

• LLOVE HOUSE ONOMICHI
  Photo: Ryo Takatsuka

• Exhibition Concept

  After falling in love with a vacant residence in Onomichi, architect Jo Nagasaka renovated it and turned it into a new center for cultural exchange known as LLOVE HOUSE ONOMICHI. Since opening in 2022, the venue has hosted a series of special exhibitions related to architecture, design, and art featuring creators from Japan and abroad. To coincide with the opening of Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025, LLOVE HOUSE ONOMICHI will present an open house event, “OPEN LLOVE HOUSE.” Commemorating 27 years since the founding of Nagasaka’s architecture firm Schemata Architects, roughly 40 current and former staff members will report on the firm’s past and ongoing projects. Along with records of their work, the exhibition will include samples and furniture created by Schemata when experimenting with materials and designs. As LLOVE HOUSE ONOMICHI hosts this exploration into the potential of “semi-architecture,” a range of concepts used in Schemata’s work will be considered: between architecture and furniture; making by de-desktoping; the possibility of being unfinished; invisible development; and more.

   

   

  <Exhibition Outline>

  Title: OPEN LLOVE HOUSE｜”Semi-Architecture” in Onomichi

  Dates:

  The exhibition will be open for one week each in October and November:

  Saturday, October 4, 2025 – Monday holiday, October 13, 2025

  Saturday, November 22, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025

  *The exhibition content will be the same in both October and November.

  * A presentation session by approximately 40 current and former staff will be open to the public on Saturday, October 4 and Sunday, October 5, 2025.

  * Ahead of the opening of the exhibition, a presentation session will be held on Friday, October 3, 2025 as a related program. Admission is free of charge and on a first-come, first-served basis (no Exhibition Passport or pre-registration required).

  Venue: LLOVE HOUSE ONOMICHI　　8-28 Higashi-Tsuchidocho, Onomichi, Hiroshima

• Participating Architects

  Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects