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Opening Event of Swissnex Window #14: Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2025/26

Join us for the opening of the Swiss Architecture Yearbook (SAY) 2025/26 exhibition, bringing together perspectives from Switzerland and Japan on how architectural practice is evolving in response to a changing world.

Taking the projects featured in the Swiss Architecture Yearbook as a starting point, the discussion will explore changing approaches to reuse and transformation, ways of living, and more interdisciplinary forms of architectural practice.

Through perspectives from both Switzerland and Japan, the panel will consider the priorities shaping architecture today, the evolving role of architects, and what the two contexts can learn from one another.

The discussion will be followed by a networking reception.

Speakers

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    Bio

    Yuma Shinohara

    Curator, SAM Swiss Architecture Museum

    Yuma Shinohara is a curator at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Before joining the S AM, he held editorial and curatorial positions at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Ruby Press, the Academy of Arts Berlin, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. At the S AM, Shinohara has curated the exhibition Make Do With Now (2022) and co-curated the exhibitions SAY Swiss Architecture Yearbook (2023), Beton (2021), and Swim City (2019). He has lectured and served as visiting critic at institutions such as the EPFL, ETH Zurich, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Technical University of Vienna. He graduated in comparative literature and society from Columbia University in New York

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    Bio

    Mizuki Suginaka

    Assistant Professor, Kyoto University

    2022–present Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.
    2019–present Studio Tawaraya, Japan.
    2015–2019 A. Inari Architect & Associates, Japan.
    2013–2015 Norbert Mathis Architekt, Switzerland.
    2013 Master’s degree in architecture, Kyoto University.
    My research and design work explores everyday landscapes shaped by living spaces, townscapes and daily activities, providing insights into how these places can be sustained and adapted over time.

Program

  • 5:30pm – Doors open
  • 6:00pm – Welcome remarks S AM + Swissnex
  • 6:05pm – Introduction to SAY/Swiss Architecture
  • 6:45pm – Panel discussion
  • 7:15pm – Audience Q&A
  • 7:30pm – Networking reception
  • 8:30pm – End of event
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Event start time

  • Japan

    6:00PM

Partners

  • Swissnex
  • SAM Swiss Architecture Museum

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