SUSAN JONES: HOME | WORLD Rethinking Paradigms of Architecture

SUSAN JONES: HOME | WORLD Rethinking Paradigms of Architecture

THURSDAY, October 10, 2019 @19:00
Doors open at 18:30

SUMMARY:
Rethinking paradigms of architectural means of spatial production, the small family home has long been a modernist means of investigation for architects in the 20th century, from Le Corbusier, to Adolf Loos, to Alvar Aalto, to Alvaro Siza to Kazuo Shinohara to Atelier Bow-Wow, just to name a few. The freedom afforded within the realm of intimate risk taking – be it by an individual client or a personal family home – has afforded architects the investigative means to explore the house not only as part of an urban spatial fabric and interior spatial relationships, but often, also the means to explore both material and production methodologies emerging on a larger, international scale.  Susan Jones, FAIA, founder of atelierjones, a small Seattle, USA architectural practice will explore these issues in context of their CLTHouse. Using research as a design tool, the practice seeks out opportunities to explore existing production and ecological systems and then expand them at scale, maximizing disruption of conventional production  methodologies creating broad, systemic change.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Ar. Susan Jones

–Founding Principal of atelierjones, based in Seattle
–Affiliate Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington
–A national leader in the building mass timber community

Atelierjones’ work entwines design, research, and community engagement to create projects of reclamation: of sites, buildings, materials, waste, and ways of living. An all-woman owned firm, Susan Jones, FAIA founded atelierjones in 2003, based in the ecologically rich US Pacific Northwest. With her staff of four their projects seek out sites and materials with inherent, but underutilized value – to harvest their embodied carbon and energy, their catalytic power for owners and communities, their beauty. Their design award-winning work creates delight and wonder in leftover, dirty, forgotten places and spaces, and materials. Ranked No. 7 in Design by Architect Magazine in 2017, atelierjones forged this cross-disciplinary approach through embracing methodologies mined from sustainability and materials research, from historic preservation and adaptive reuse movements, real estate development as well as community activism.

VENUE:
RIVIERA SHOWROOM
3-3-5 Akasaka, Minato City, Tōkyō
Sumitomo Life Sanno Bldg. B1

ADMISSION FEES:
AIA Members: Free
General:  1000 yen
Students:  500yen

CES:
1.5 LU/HSW for AIA members

There will be a wine/snack networking session after the lecture.