Wrapping up his year as the 2025/26 Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design, Yusuke Obuchi will deliver a talk for Existing Futures, a new collaborative exhibition of student work opening at the Larry Wayne Richards Gallery at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 24. This talk, happening during Doors Open TO, is free to the public. Join us! 

Yusuke Obuchi is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, where he has directed the Obuchi Laboratory since 2010 and co-founded the Advanced Design Studies Program. Previously, he co-directed the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London (2005–2010). He studied architecture at Princeton, SCI-Arc, and the University of Toronto, and has taught at Princeton, Harvard GSD, Hong Kong University, the University of Kentucky, and NJIT.

Existing Futures

Teaching Experiments in Maintenance, Media, and Urban Occupation.

The future does not emerge from the constant pursuit of the new, but from reimagining what already exists.

This exhibition brings together work across three courses: Radical Maintenance, Analog Machines – I Am Here, and Urban Nomad. Through acts of observation, repair, reconstruction, and fabrication, these projects explore how architecture can emerge from unrealized potentials already present in our environments, materials, and social conditions.

Taught and curated by Yusuke Obuchi, 2025 – 2026 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto. 

This exhibition is generously supported by the Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design Endowment.