Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art was designed by Arata Isozaki and opened in 1974, and celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024. In addition to this museum, Isozaki designed the Kitakyushu Central Library, the West Japan General Exhibition Center, and the Kitakyushu International Conference Center, all of which are familiar landmarks of Kitakyushu City.
　Born in Oita City in 1931, much of Isozaki's early architecture was realized in Oita and Fukuoka. There, there were people who discovered the young Isozaki's talent and gave him opportunities to work. One of them was Tsukasa Yotsushima, the longtime president of Fukuoka City Bank (now Nishi-Nippon City Bank). Starting with the Oita branch of Fukuoka Mutual Bank (later Fukuoka City Bank), Yotsushima commissioned Isozaki to design a series of Fukuoka Mutual Bank branches. Yashima entrusted Isozaki with the design for the relocation of the head office from Tenjin to in front of Hakata Station, and the massive Indian reddish brownstone exterior of the head office has long been a symbol of the area in front of Hakata Station.
　Isozaki suggested that Yotsushima commission an artist to create a work to be displayed in the head office, and Yoshishige Saito, Gyoji Nomiyama, and others created a work for the reception room. In the process, Yotsushima himself began to collect works of art to be displayed in the bank, and the "Yotsushima Collection" was formed.
　The exhibition will feature models and documents related to the architecture Isozaki worked on in Kyushu in the 1960s and 1970s, prints inspired by his own architecture, and art works collected by Yotsushima.