By Pippo Ciorra and Florence Ostende

The Japanese House accompanies the 2017 exhibition at the Barbican Centre. Florence Ostende is Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. She organized the event Good Show/Bad Show (Palais de Tokyo, 2011) and the Dallas Biennale (2012), and co-curated the Institute of Savage Archives (Villa Arson, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Nice, 2012). Pippo Ciorra is an architect, critic, teacher, and member of the editorial committee of Casabella from 1996 to 2012. He writes for newspapers and magazines and has written monographic studies on Ludovico Quaroni, Peter Eisenman, and others.