Online Event

Online Lecture: Seeing green, Doing green: Biophilic Design and Environmentally-Responsible Behaviors by Erin M. Hamilton (Texas Tech University) ＆ Anne Herndon (Lake | Flato) Saturday, July 16, 2022 @ 10:00 - 12:00, JST (09:30 to 10:00: TEST SESSION) SUMMARY: The challenge of global climate change necessitates interdisciplinary problem solving. In the built environment sector, the […]

Online Lecture: Creating a Forest in the City: Pioneering Wood Structure in Architecture by Kazuyoshi Kimura (Shelter Inc.) FRIDAY, OCT 28, 2022 19:00 - 21:00JST (18:30 - 19:00 is a test session) BIO: Kazuyoshi Kimura, Chairman and Founder of Shelter Inc. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Ashikaga Institute of Technology in1972. In 1973, he […]

Connecting the Dots:  Creating Resilient Communities through Transition Design  Friday, February 24, 2023 19:00 - 21:00  Christian Dimmer is Associate-Professor for Urban Studies at Waseda University’s School of International Liberal Studies (SILS). He graduated with honours from the inter-disciplinary Spatial and Environmental Planning program of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Christian earned his PhD […]

Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:00am - 12:00 pm(JST)  SPEAKER BIO Ellen Lou, FAIA, AICP, LEED-AP BD+C Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Ellen Lou works at the forefront of urban regeneration, advancing new development models and climate-adaptive design strategies for cities across North America and Asia. As a principal for SOM’s City Design Practice, she tackles the […]

SPEAKER BIO: As a Landscape Architect, Urban Designer, and Director at James Corner Field Operations, Aaron Kelley insists that creative and humane designs are best accomplished through rich interdisciplinary collaboration. Aaron has worked to enhance living systems around the world, focusing not only on the craft of placemaking, but also on the shape of our […]

Jorge Almazán: Rebuilding Public SPACE from the Bottom-up: Research and Practice from Japan Saturday, July 29, 2023 10:00 - 12:00 SPEAKER BIO: Jorge Almazán is an architect based in Tokyo and an associate professor at Keio University. After graduating from the Architecture School of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he obtained his Ph.D. at the […]

Takako TAJIMA, AIA NCARB ASLA Beautiful Seams: Utilizing Urban Rivers to Stitch Together a New Kind of Urbanism Saturday, October 28 at 10am(JST)  SPEAKER BIO: Takako Tajima is principal of Tajima Open Design Office and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California. Like her background, Takako’s professional experience ranges in type, scale, and scope. […]

Helena Capkova: Intersections of Central European and Japanese Modernisms / Bedřich Feuerstein and Antonin Raymond architects Saturday, November 25 at 10 AM (JST) SPEAKER BIO: Helena Čapková  is a Tokyo/ Kyoto/Prague based curator, researcher, and art/ architecture history professor at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. Since 2010, she has published and lectured extensively about the specific nature […]

Title:  Low Carbon Living with Climate Adaptive Ecodistricts & Buildings Session type: Presentation on topic for approximately 1-hour followed by discussion and questions. This session will focus on various threats posed by changing climate – and options available to mitigate them. Topics will include policy recommendations, blind spots in the building industry based on global […]

NCARB & You: AIA Japan Join NCARB Assistant Vice President, International Relations, Patricia Ramallo, AIA, NCARB, MBA, CAE, LEED AP BD+C & Homes, for a presentation on a range of licensure topics relevant to students, aspiring architects, supervisors, architects, and people in the architecture profession. The presentation will review the steps necessary to achieve licensure […]

Cero 9 Founder and Principals, Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda Description Worlding is the term used to review the architectural work and trajectory of Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda, founders of the Madrid-based architecture studio amid.cero9. As an intellectual design method, worlding implies a particular way of being in the world. […]

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