Design Anthology

Architect-Archaeologist

In 2010,Tsuyoshi Tane stood in front of a line of 99 framed clock prints inside a warehouse gallery in Tokyo. Despite the occasion being the young architect’s first solo exhibition in Japan, he chose to title this installation Pasts, and in it presented memories from growing up in Tokyo through to the process of winning his first international competition in 2006, for his design of the Estonian National Museum with Dan Dorell and Lina Ghotmeh.

Tane, Dorell and Ghotmeh’s winning proposal involved moving the construction

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