In 2013, the Serpentine Pavilion was designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto like a cloud floating above the grass. 

Now he is back, not far away, with the inaugural exhibition in Japan House, ‘Sou Fujimoto: Futures of the Future’, which shows models for some of his designs such as the Serpentine Pavilion, the Beton Hala Waterfront Centre in Belgrade, the Library at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and a concert hall in Budapest, each positioned on a plinth like jewellery in a Bond Street shop, but here the plinth is plywood and most of the models are ideas for buildings of the future, looking at new ways of living and working and integrating architecture with trees, landscape and vegetation on the one hand and with physical elements such as furniture, staircases and public spaces on the other. 

Devised in conjunction with TOTO GALLERY MA as part of the London Festival of Architecture, this fascinating and thought-provoking exhibition also explores everyday objects and how they could provide inspiration for architecture in ‘Architecture is everywhere’ with plinths in the windows drawing attention from passers-by and enticing them in to join the discussion on what future buildings and cities might look like.

As Fujimoto says ‘Creating architecture is like planting seeds of the future’.