You no longer have to hop on a flight to Tokyo to wander through a three-dimensional forest.
From next week, architecture lovers in Taipei will be able to meet one of Japan’s most influential “nature‑driven” architects up close. The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest—the show that drew more than 230,000 visitors to Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum—opens at Jut Art Museum on 15 August 2026 and runs until 3 January 2027.
Rather than a pared‑back touring version, the Taipei exhibition offers a full survey of Fujimoto’s practice over nearly thirty years. It unfolds across two distinct sites: Jut Art Museum on Section 3 of Civic Boulevard, and a former industrial landmark—the Taipei Brewery bottling warehouse tucked off Songjiang Road in Zhongshan District. Together, these twin venues allow visitors to read his work within two sharply contrasting urban atmospheres: the white‑cube museum and the raw brick shell of a historic factory.
Fujimoto grew up amid the forests of Hokkaido and graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Architecture in 1994, founding Sou Fujimoto Architects six years later. Forests, clouds and caves recur in his projects as metaphors for spaces that hover between interior and exterior, domestic and public. From House NA and the Musashino Art University Museum & Library in Tokyo, to L’Arbre Blanc in Montpellier and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, his buildings circle one central question: how do we move, pause and encounter one another freely within the city?
In Taipei, that question is unpacked through six thematic sections. More than one hundred projects have travelled from Japan, including models, sketches, drawings and years of accumulated sketchbooks. The main galleries focus on housing, civic architecture and urban proposals, inviting visitors to follow Fujimoto’s trajectory from instinctive, “primitive” spatial ideas towards far‑reaching visions of future cities.
The satellite venue holds the exhibition’s most dramatic gesture. Here, a 1:5 scale model of the Circular Wooden Roof—Fujimoto’s timber ring for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, and currently the world’s largest wooden structure—is reconstructed within the brewery warehouse. At the Expo, the ring acts as a symbol of openness and inclusivity; in Taipei, its partial rebuild allows visitors to weave through timber grids and curved walkways, experiencing first‑hand the vertigo and delight of a “forest‑like” public ground suspended above the city.
The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–18:00 (closed on Mondays). Standard admission is NT$250, with concessions at NT$200; a single ticket grants access to both venues.
