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, […]

TOSHIKO KINOSHITA “The Work of Heritage Houses Trust”

HERITAGE HOUSES TRUST 1 Chome-11-7 Jiyugaoka, Meguro City, Tokyo, Japan

Saturday, September 7, 11:00-13:00 at the Heritage Houses Trust lecture followed by a tour of Sonoda House by Junzo Yoshimura. Lecture Topic: This event includes a lecture on the work of the non-profit organization Heritage Houses Trust and a tour of the Sonoda House, which the Trust was actually involved in preserving. The participants will […]

Sharon Prince: Introduction to Design for Freedom Lecture

International House of Japan 5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sharon Prince, Founder, Grace Farms Foundation Special Guests: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA LECTURE DESCRIPTION: The Design for Freedom movement is raising awareness about the pervasiveness of forced and child labor in the building material supply chain. The built environment continues to be heavily reliant on forced labor. We will explore the risks […]

NCARB & You: AXP, ARE, & Certification – AIA Japan: Online Session on Path to U.S. Licensure

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 […]

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Cero 9 : Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda Lecture

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. […]

Underground Discharge Channel Tour

Tokyo Metropolitan Area Underground Discharge Channel Tour Join us on Saturday October 26 for a a guided tour of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, the world’s largest underground flood water diversion facility. The project was built to store the excess stormwater during heavy rains and typhoons to avoid flooding in the low elevation […]