techPlate 164 · Tokyo, Japan

National Museum of Western Art

Corbusier's only building in the East, a museum as a cube of light.

1959 · Le Corbusier · Asia

The chamber score

Sakura Sakura

Traditional · Edo

The folk song every gate already knows.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO Corbusier museum in Ueno, a monument of international modernism.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct National Museum of Western Art through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if National Museum of Western Art was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.