On 4 June 2026, the National Institute of Architecture in Kaunas invites visitors to a lecture and conversation with Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada, founder of the Tokyo-based studio Suzuko Yamada Architects. The event will take place in the Institute’s reading room at Kęstučio g. 19-3, Kaunas.
Suzuko Yamada studied landscape design and architecture, worked at the renowned Sou Fujimoto Architects, and established her own practice in 2013. Today, she belongs to a new generation of Japanese architects rethinking the relationship between the house, the city, nature, and everyday life.
In her lecture “Polyphonic Architecture,” Yamada will speak about architecture as a polyphonic structure. In her work, a building is not understood as a closed object or a system of clearly separated functions. Instead, space is composed through layers, rhythms, and mutual responses. Structures, plants, furniture, stairs, curtains, books, and people become equal participants in architecture.
This approach is especially visible in her Tokyo house “daita2019,” where timber structure, steel pipes, terraces, plants, and everyday objects form a dense yet open living landscape. Yamada’s architecture raises the question of how to create not a controlling, but an open environment — one that allows the world to sound in several voices at once.
The event is organised in partnership with the Lithuanian Culture Institute. The lecture will be held in English.
Event information
4 June 2026
Doors: 18:00
Event starts: 19:00
The lecture will be held in English.
