2023 AIA JAPAN YEAR END PARTY+DESIGN AWARDS CELEBRATION

Sunday, December 17th at 17:00 - Dear Members, Friends, and Sponsors, We're excited to announce the 2023 AIA JAPAN YEAR-END PARTY + DESIGN AWARDS CELEBRATION. Join us on December 17, 2023, at the International House of Japan to celebrate a year of achievements and excellence. Event Details: - Date: PM 5:00-, December 17(Sun), 2023 - […]

Ebisu Bar Nite Vol. 2

EBISU BAR NITE VOL.2 6:30 PM  10:00 PM 東京都渋谷区恵比寿1-11-2TokyoJapan (map) COME JOIN US IN EBISU FOR ANOTHER SESSION OF AIA JAPAN’S “BAR NITE”. BRING YOUR FRIEND! FOOTNIK BAR IN EBISU HTTPS://FOOTNIK.NET/EBISU/ No RSVP. No reservation. No entry charge. Come anytime, leave anytime. Pay for your own drink and food at the counter.

Michael Eliason: Low Carbon Living with Climate Adaptive Ecodistricts & Buildings

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 […]

Gallery MA Tour: Nosaku/Tsuneyama: Urban Fungus – Architecture is a Complex Mesh

Company Profile Fuminori Nousaku and Mio Tsuneyama are Tokyo-based architects. They engage in critical architectural practice on the theme of contemporary cities and ecosystems. Their representative works include Holes in the House (Tokyo,) House For Seven People*(Tokyo); Akeno Raised Floor** (Yamanashi Prefecture); Piles and Pointed Roof (Tokyo); Guest House in Takaoka*** (Toyama Prefecture); Himi Migrant […]

Ebisu Beer Nite Vol.3

Ebisu Beer Nite Vol.3 7:00 PM  9:00 PM Ebisu Beer Nite is back with a new name: ABC (Architects, Beer, and Chat)! It’s another chance to meet fellow AIA Japan members and connect! Pay for your own drink and food. Come anytime, leave anytime. See you at the PUB TAP+ in Ebisu.

High Rise Façade – Balancing Aesthetic, Structural Integrity, and Functionality

AIA Japan In Person CES Lecture Date of In-Person Lecture:  May 16, 2024  Thursday evening Time: 1900 - 2100 Hrs Venue: TBD Roppongi Mid-Town Lecture Title: High Rise Façade – Balancing Aesthetic, Structural Integrity, and Functionality Lecture Description: The façade of a high-rise building serves as both the face and the skin of the structure, […]

AIA Japan Enoura Observatory Guided Walking Tour

Title: AIA Japan Enoura Observatory Guided Walking Tour Date/Time: 25 May 2024 / 1330-1530 / JST Tour: Approximately  2-hour Tour conducted by Haruko Hoyle, Director Odawara Art Foundation Description: The Enoura Observatory is located in a beautiful, hilly area covered with citrus grove in Enoura, Odawara. Contemporary Artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto, created a forum for disseminating […]

Lecuture: Carlos Arnaiz

Come join us at CIC Tokyo for a special lecture by Architect Carlos Arnaiz. CES Pending • Lecture topic—Carlos Arnaiz examines the ecological and technological disruptions that are altering how we think about and alter our built environment today. Navigating through these disruptions requires us to look at systems and processes in entirety, rather than […]

Shigenori Uoya: Gallery MA Visit

Description from Gallery Ma website: Shigenori Uoya has renovated over 120 Kyo-machiya (Kyoto's traditional townhouses) based on his research on the composition of Kyoto and other cities and is engaged in architectural practice focused on the issue of inheriting urban context. In Kyoto, historic cityscapes are on the verge of extinction, with machiya (townhouses) and […]

Shingo Masuda: Architecture from Outside

Summary Japan fulfilled its massive post war housing demand in a little more than 30 years. Since 1974, the industry changed from speed and ease to “spatiality,” an abstract term invented to sustain production, from which an integrated spatial concept of "inside and outside" developed to the present. Interior spaces are most affected by the […]

Mitsuhiro Kanada (arup japan) Socially Sustainable Way of Building -Natural Material as Catalyst for Community Engagement-

Manas Trading Showroom Nakameguro Okura Bldg. 1-chōme-26-9 Kamimeguro, Meguro City, Tokyo, Japan

Friday, August 2, 19:00-21:00 at Manas Trading Showroom (see map) Join us on Friday, August 2nd, at 19:00 for Mitsuhiro Kanada's lecture titled, "Socially Sustainable Way of Building: Natural Material as Catalyst for Community Engagement." This lecture will be online and in-person at the Manas Trading Showroom in Nakameguro. For those joining use in person, […]