Kumamoto Exhibition Explores Shoei Yoh’s Pioneering Timber Structures and Computational Design

Misumi Port Ferry Terminal in 2017. Image © そらみみ via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0The Contemporary Art Museum of Kumamoto and the Shoei Yoh Archive at Kyushu University are honoring the late Japanese architect Shoei Yoh with an exhibition on view at the museum through March 9. The architect, who passed away on January 8, 2026, was born in Kumamoto in 1940 and, throughout his career, worked across product design, interiors, and architecture. H