Tane Garden House

This book introduces and explains the Garden House built on the Vitra Campus by architect Tane Tsuyoshi in 2023. The building is situated close to the Oudolf Garten, and is used as a rooftop viewing platform for Campus visitors as well as a meeting place for the gardeners.

The Tane Garden House reflects the architect’s distinctive design approach which starts with an intensive research process exploring the regional context of each project. Working in an archeological style, Tane spends a long period understanding the ‘memory of the place’ embedded in the land and its history. This approach has formed the basis of Tane’s core architectural concept, ‘Archeology of the Future’, which centres on the idea that architecture should start with the memory of the place in which a new structure stands.

The book documents the extensive design process which spanned several years and features a number of unrealised models, and sketches by Tane.

Rolf Fehlbaum is the chairman emeritus and member of the board of directors of Vitra, a Swiss family-owned furniture company.

Tane Tsuyoshi is a Paris-based Japanese architect, and founder in 2017 of Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects. During his career he has received numerous accolades, including Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture in 2022, the Grand Prix AFEX – French Architects Overseas (2021 and 2016), the 67th Japanese Ministry New Face Award (one of the Minister of Education Awards for Fine Arts).