Kaz Yoneda: Tokyoism: Speculative Practice as a Metronomic ‘Other’

Kaz Yoneda: Tokyoism: Speculative Practice as a Metronomic ‘Other’

Thursday, April 25, 2019 @19:00

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Kaz Yoneda is the founding principal of Bureau 0-1 (zero to one), Inc., an integrated full-service design practice grounded in architecture. With a process oriented ontological principles that evades any equilibrious or binary system, they offer a boundary-less and timeless design that seeks to question and escape conventionality. Perhaps this is rooted in his upbringing. Always a metronomic outsider to Japan, Kaz was born in Seattle, spent summers in Kansai, raised in California, then went on to receive B.Arch. from Cornell AAP, worked at Sou Fujimoto, and then back to receive M.Arch. II from Harvard GSD. A chapter turned when he arrived to Tokyo to startup Harvard’s Tokyo Studio with Toyo Ito, and further, as architecture director for Takram from 2011-2014. Through this lecture, Kaz will ruminate on the possibility of integrated theory-praxis emanating from Tokyo in all its singularity and hyperboles.

カズ・ヨネダは、2014年にBureau 0–1(ビューロー・ゼロ・トゥ・ワン)の拠点を東京に構え、空間構成、都市や建築設計、ブランディングやグラフィック・デザインなどと主軸活動に据えたオフィスを創設しました。プロセス重視の手法を基盤に、旧来の単純な白か黒かという二者択一に囚われずに、普通や標準となった概念を根底から捉え直し、様々な「境」を超えた新しい普遍性によって顕れてくるデザインを目指しています。それは、彼自身のメトロノームの様な外的存在として過ごしてきた生い立ちにあるかもしれません。本講義では、カズ氏の往来歴から見出してきた視点を基に、東京の独自性と拡張性からヒントを得られる理論と実践の両立や統合の可能性について話します。

VENUE:
Tokyo Arper Japan K.K..
HT Jingu Gaien Building, 8th F
2-7-22 Kita Aoyama, Minato-Ku Japan

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