Online Event

Human Wellness: Pandemic and Beyond Wellness Design to Build Environment by Luke Leung (SOM) Monday, April 26, 2021 @00:00 JST SUMMARY: In 2019, United Nation World Health Organization (WHO) categorized health threats that can derail humans and a pandemic was number 3 on the list.  When COVID-19 hit us in early 2020, we saw it […]

Learning from Japanese traditional villages: Reflecting ecological knowledge on architecture utilizing simulation by Norihisa KAWASHIMA (Meiji University) Monday, April 26, 2021 @19:00 JST SUMMARY: Norihisa Kawashima will show researches and local practices in Japan to learn ecological knowledge from traditional Japanese villages and conventional architectural typologies through environmental analysis using computational simulation, and showed that […]

Delivering the Value of BIM to Owners with a Digital Twin by Marcus Kim (Autodesk) Saturday, May 15, 2021 @10:00 JST SUMMARY: Digital Twin is the trending topic in the AEC industry today. Like BIM during the early days, digital twin is a revolutionary idea that is often spoken but not truly understood. At its […]

The Design of the Burj Khalifa by William F. Baker (SOM) Saturday, May 29, 2021 @10:00 JST (9:30 to 10:00: TEST SESSION) SUMMARY: The Speaker for this lecture is William F. Baker, Structural Engineering Design Partner for the architectural engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, who was the structural engineer for Burj Khalifa, currently […]