Aaron Kelley, LEED AP, ASLA: Sense & The Singularity: Designing Tangible Landscapes in an Evolving Global Reality
2023-06-24 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 東京都
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 collective imagination. At Field Operations, he has led various projects, including NBCUniversal’s expanded studio campus in Los Angeles, the winning commission for Taopu Central Park in Shanghai, and the award-winning “Urban Metabolism” exhibit for the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. In addition to his project work, Aaron is a guest lecturer and studio critic at various institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island School of Design, and La Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Lecture Description:
Human habitat in the 21st century might be described by two, unprecedented themes:

The fragility and interconnectedness of environments impacted by humans (e.g. climate change, deforestation, etc.)
The emergence of virtual society as a new form of habitat, communication, and community (e.g. social media, artificial intelligence)

Through the lens of a contemporary landscape architecture practice, this presentation serves to remind us of the incalculable value of our tangible relationships with the earth and our communities. Together, we will navigate the intricacies of designing living systems at various scales, and uncover the potential for resilience, equity, and joy in every act of design.
Learning Objectives:
After attending the lecture, participants will be able to effectively:

Describe the evolving role of landscape architecture in the construction of resilient and equitable cities.
Advocate for the value of living environments in an increasingly virtual world; from the scale of the human body, to the scale of the garden, to the scale of the city.
Recognize opportunities to foster joy, fulfillment, and creativity through design and collaboration.
Embrace a renewed sense of inquiry into the scale and impact of each design project.

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Robert Hutchison: In Search of a Holistic Practice: Architecture, Speculation, Installation
2023-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
Robert Hutchison:
In Search of a Holistic Practice: Architecture, Speculation, Installation
Thursday, July 13, 2023 19:00 – 21:00 (doors open at 18:30)
at the Arper showroom in gaienmae (see MAP)

SPEAKER BIO:
Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. In 2013 Hutchison established the architecture studio Robert Hutchison Architecture based in Seattle, Washington. Hutchison is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches architectural design studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the recipient of the 2017 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the 2010 Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowship, the 2009 Emerging Voices awarded by The Architectural League of NY, a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship, and a 2024 Loghaven Fellowship. Hutchison is currently in Japan on a 4-month Creative Artists Fellowship awarded through the Japan/US Friendship Commission.
https://robhutcharch.com/
LECTURE SUMMARY:
Robert Hutchison will provide an overview of work developed by his eponymous practice since its founding ten years ago, focusing on the firm’s interest in exploring architecture through a balance of built work, speculative projects, and installation. Three projects will be presented in-depth: 1) Rain Harvest Home, constructed in 2020 as a design collaboration between Hutchison and Mexico City based architect Javier Sanchez; 2) Memory Houses, a five year long speculative project that investigates mortality and memory through the lens of architecture, and which was the subject of a 2019 solo exhibition at Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City; and 3) Chapel for Luis Barragan, a temporary installation constructed on the rooftop of Luis Barragan’s studio as part of the 2019 exhibition.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After the lecture, participants will be able to
1. Describe the environmental as well as experiential role that rainwater plays in the Rain Harvest Home.
2. Identify the historical architectural sources that informed the designs for the eight structures that comprise the firm’s Memory Houses project.
3. Explain the importance that speculative work and installation play in the firm’s body of work.
4. Summarize the role of physical models in the working process of the firm.

City Regeneration Through Design
2023-07-20 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | 東京都
Northglass Symposium In Tokyo
Date: 20 July 2023
Venue: International House of Japan
Title: City Regeneration Through Design
Since the implementation of the Urban Renaissance Special Measures Act of 2002, large-scale redevelopment has accelerated in the central areas of Tokyo, dramatically transforming the urban landscape. This change has significantly impacted not only our living environment but also the values we associate with the city. In this symposium, we aim to evaluate the significance of urban regeneration brought about by recent large-scale urban development and discuss its potential.
City needs to be sustainable for many generations as well. We all are responsible to keep this earth and urban environments sustainable and all designers are committed to this never-ending responsibility. Using Azabudai project and others, the lecture will explore architects responsibility as well as the importance of the collaborative works with designers and clients.
The lecture will also examine the specific process and contents of pre-design, using Azabudai Hills, as an example. The lecture address the dialogue between the developer and the architects as it relates to the pre-design process, using the podium of the buildings at Azabudai Hills, designed by the Heatherwick Studio, as a case study.
Lecture objectives

Identify design strategies to create sustainable and better urban environments.
Describe the importance of the creative collaborations to make the urban space more exciting.
Explain the outline and process of pre-design by the project proponent
Analyze the differences between the perspectives of the business (developer) side and the architect’s side in the ultimate design proposal.

HSW Justification
Specifically, by learning about the project planning and design strategies of large-scale urban redevelopment, we will deepen our understanding of the sustainability and mechanism of city regeneration through large-scale redevelopment that impacts the health, safety and welfare of the residents. Business strategy is an essential element for the success and regeneration of urban development, while the value of design enhances the sustainability and quality of the urban environment and urban life by improving health, safety and welfare of the citizens.

Jorge Almazán: Rebuilding Public SPACE from the Bottom-up: Research and Practice from Japan
2023-07-29 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 東京都
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 Tokyo Institute of Technology. His office, Jorge Almazán Architects, is committed to environmentally responsible and socially inclusive projects. His awarded architectural designs for urban regeneration include the First Prize of the Ota City Urban Landscape Award (2019) and the Japan Institute of Architects’ Excellence Award (2018, 2022). He recently published “Emergent Tokyo: Designing the spontaneous city” (Oro Editions, 2021) and its Japanese version (Gakugei Shuppan, 2022).
LECTURE SUMMARY:
Drawing from research and design practice in Japan, Jorge Almazán will argue for the significance of architecture and urban design to rebuild the public realm in a bottom-up, emergent way. He will connect the research in his latest publication—Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City—with his projects and public space interventions in Japan.
A wealth of publications contends that Japan historically lacks a sense of publicness. Some attribute this to the absence of a pre-Meiji Period equivalent word to “public” in Japanese. Others suggest Japan’s lack of Western-style civic traditions. This lecture rejects this view as cultural essentialism that denies the importance of public space in Japan. Almazán builds the case for architecture and urban design as one of the primary devices that any society (Western or not) has in order to create and enhance public life.
This lecture will tackle this issue in the two radically different built environments to which Japan is gradually polarizing. The presentation’s first half focuses on Tokyo as Japan’s prime metropolitan agglomeration. Almazán will show how postwar Tokyo developed an emergent publicness that is alive today. However, it is increasingly under threat from neoliberal urban policies favoring the large-scale corporate redevelopment of its central neighborhoods.
The second half will focus on projects led by the speaker, primarily in small-city Japan. Through mapping, interventions in public space, and renovations of abandoned houses into community spaces, Almazán explores the benefits and difficulties of enhancing the public realm in the suburbanized and car-dependent environment of regional Japan.
Since the 1990s, cities worldwide have made a “neoliberal turn” in their policies, leaving the task of designing public space to the so-called market forces. Japan is no exception. As a result, Tokyo and many small cities across Japan have lost their vibrant streets and communities. How can architecture contribute to amending this tendency? What is the role of the architect in rebuilding public space? The final part of this lecture will address these questions and suggest possible answers on how to rebuild public life from the bottom up.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After the lecture, participants will be able to
1. Discuss public space as a fundamental realm in any human habitat, avoiding the cultural essentialism that often revolves around the discussion on Japanese cities.
2. Describe specific features in Tokyo’s urbanism that allowed the city to build a unique public realm from the bottom up.
3. Identify the differences between public spaces in Tokyo and small Japanese cities. Examine the common challenges Japanese small cities share with other suburbanized regions worldwide.
4. Verify the potential and the limitations of a bottom-up approach to public space through the study of real interventions.
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Takako TAJIMA, AIA NCARB ASLA Beautiful Seams: Utilizing Urban Rivers to Stitch Together a New Kind of Urbanism
2023-10-28 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 東京都
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. Currently, she is contributing to a set of new objective design standards for the City of Palm Desert and designing the open space components of several housing projects being developed as part of California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey initiative. At USC, Takako leads graduate level design studios and teaches in the Asian Architecture and Landscape Urbanism study abroad program for undergraduate architecture students.
LECTURE SUMMARY:
Throughout history, human settlements relied on rivers as sources of water and food, means of circulation and transportation, and places of recreation. The history of urbanization, however, is also the history of degraded riparian systems. This lecture will examine the plight of rivers in the 20th and 21st centuries and the prospects for urbanism when we reorient our cities to the rivers from which they emerged.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After the lecture, participants will be able to

Identify the differences between perennial rivers and intermittent rivers.
Describe the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ role and jurisdiction relative to rivers.
Define the purpose of the Clean Water Act.
Identify examples of point source and non-point source pollution.
Explain how the “watershed approach” differs from past approaches to environmental management.

Drawn to Architecture
2023-11-02 17:30 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
in-person event :
Drawn to Architecture
Thursday, November 2 at 17:30-20:30(JST)

program description:
Most architects sketch and draw to communicate their design ideas. Over time, some of us lose touch with those early skills as we grow in responsibilities and become engaged in other aspects of our work. However, the importance of quickly communicating our ideas remains the same. Whether you are an expert sketch artist or have always wanted to improve your basic sketching or water coloring techniques–this event is for you.
This mini-workshop, tour and social includes an evening with two professional illustrators from NIKKEN SEKKEI and will be held in NIKKEN’s new, world class collaboration space. There is time planned for learning, sketching and socializing. Please bring your sketchbook/pencils/pens, paints/paper, or iPad/tablet and be prepared to try something familiar or learn something new.
The venue is part of the inspiration and this event will be held in NIKKEN’s newest collaboration space called PYNT (ピント) which means ‘focus point’. PYNT is all about collaboration and innovation and is designed to create ‘controlled collisions’ between people from different departments, groups, cultures and companies. It is housed in NIKKEN’s newly re-certified LEED Gold (EB) and WELL Platinum certified headquarters. A 30-minute guided tour of the PYNT space will kick off the event and light food and beverages will be provided.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will:

Learn and practice specific skills of interest to them (composition, silhouette, hatching, blocking/framing, speed, painting, digital solutions, etc.);
Become familiar with tools and techniques used by professional illustrators to shape a story;
Be able to think critically about a sketch or illustration’s purpose to help communicate an idea or design solution.
Be inspired to continue sketching, and utilize newly learned skills.

CES:
2LUs Approved

Visit to Gallery Ma: Tezzo Nishizawa’s Solo Exhibition: Chance Favors the Prepared Mind
2023-11-11 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | 東京都
November 11, 10.30 am, JST
Gallery Visit
Architect Tezzo Nishizawa will personally guide AIA Japan members and friends though his new exhibit at TOTO GALLERY · MA in Tokyo, Japan. This is a casual visit – we encourage questions, comments, and discussions throughout.
Lecture/Exhibit Description
Architect Tezzo Nishizawa will conduct a walking lecture/tour through his exhibit, where he will describe his search for something as yet undiscovered: the kind of architectural planning that he hopes to pursue going forward. This effort to unearth the meaning of architectural plans that he has engaged with so far through an after-the-fact examination of the peripheral and fragmentary objects that they yielded, will, he hopes, open a door to the rich essence of architecture.

Lecture/Exhibit Objectives
1. Describe the meaning of architecture as “a peripheral phenomenon while its core defies articulation”.
2. Analyze how we can plan in advance the wealth of elements that form the core of architecture, yet remain beyond our reach, and how we can grasp the totality of the relationships among these elements.
3. Understand the meaning of “Chance favors the prepared mind” a proverb attributed to the microbiologist Louis Pasteur, as the exhibit explores chances of discovering the unexpected.
4. Explore how mental preparation and initiative will bring “good luck” and preparation is a prerequisite for our discovery of the true significance of a work of architecture.
Exhibition Description from Tezzo Nishizawa:
I sometimes think that architecture is a phenomenon that can only be described from the periphery, while its core defies articulation. We can ascertain architecture’s reality through written words, what we see with our own eyes, and the touch of our own hands. But I have always wondered how one can possibly plan in advance the wealth of elements that form the core of architecture, yet remain beyond our reach, and how we can grasp the totality of the relationships among these elements. We sense that while architecture has a physical form, what we really wish to grasp is something that only exists behind that form. Perhaps it is this aspect of architecture that inspires us the most. “Chance favors the prepared mind” is a proverb attributed to the microbiologist Louis Pasteur. One’s chances of discovering the unexpected are vastly improved by preparing for that possibility in advance; it is this mental preparation and initiative that brings “good luck.” Preparation is a prerequisite for our discovery of the true significance of a work of architecture; what we call planning may well mean the pursuit, from the outset, of something we have never searched for before. Furthermore, the drawings and models that emerge in the course of this search should serve as clues that will help us grasp architecture’s essence.
This exhibition is a project through which I am attempting to search for something as yet undiscovered: the kind of architectural planning I should pursue from this point on. This effort to unearth the meaning of the architectural plans I have been engaged with so far through an after-the-fact examination of the peripheral and fragmentary objects they yielded will, I hope, open a door to the rich essence of architecture.

Helena Capkova: Intersections of Central European and Japanese Modernisms / Bedřich Feuerstein and Antonin Raymond architects
2023-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | 東京都
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 of Japanese modernism and avant garde that she considers as an inherent part of art history, traditionally perceived as Western. Her publications on this topic include: Transnational networkers – Iwao and Michiko Yamawaki and the formation of Japanese Modernist Design (2014), Believe in socialism … – architect Bedřich Feuerstein and his perspective on modern Japan and architecture (2016); English-Japanese publication – Antonin Raymond in Japan, 1948-1976, recollections of friends (2022) and Bedřich Feuerstein, architect. Prague-Paris-Tokyo (2022).
LECTURE SUMMARY:
Japanese and Czechoslovak modern architecture history share a surprisingly lot in common. The two countries intersected at the end of the WWI when the Czechoslovak Legions, the founding army troops of the Czechoslovak Republic, started leaving the Siberian front via Japan and as a consequence the first diplomatic contacts were established. The Czechoslovak embassy opened in 1920. Parallel to these developments, Antonín Raymond arrived in Japan from the US and established a successful architectural office in 1921. Raymond invited Feuerstein to join him in 1926 and the two architects created a number of projects in which they merged the foreign and local architectural traditions together. This lecture will introduce the legacy of B. Feuerstein and A. Raymond and their operational strategies in Japan where they worked before and after WWII.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After the lecture, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the situation in Japanese modernism in terms of relations towards foreign architects in the interwar period.
2. Discuss Japanese architectural modernism in the context of the international architectural scene.
3. Identify buildings by A. Raymond and B. Feuerstein and recognise differences in their design language.
4. Illustrate historical development in interwar Japanese architectural history by a specific set of architectural projects.
how to join the event:
Joining a lecture is free and easy to attend from anywhere!
When: Saturday, Nov 25, 2023 10:00am – 12:00 pm(JST)
Online Platform: Zoom Webinar (live broadcasting)
Registration Fee: Free
Organizer: AIA Japan
CES: 2LUs/HSW
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2023 AIA JAPAN YEAR END PARTY+DESIGN AWARDS CELEBRATION
2023-12-17 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | 東京都
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
– Venue: The International House of Japan
– Address: 5 Chome-11-16 Roppongi, Minato City, Tokyo 106-0032 〒106-0032 東京都港区六本木５丁目１１−16
– Website: [i-house.or.jp](http://i-house.or.jp)
– Phone: 0334704611
– Attire: Smart Casual

This Event is Open to:
– AIA Japan Members / Member’s Guest
– AIA Japan Design Awards Winners & Jury Members
– AIAJ’s Sponsors/ Invited Guests

AIA Japan Past Presidents Dinner
2024-01-23 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
AIA Japan Past Presidents Dinner

6:00 PM 9:00 PM

Ebisu Bar Nite Vol. 2
2024-02-01 18:30 - 22:00 UTC | 東京都
EBISU BAR NITE VOL.2

6:30 PM 10:00 PM
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COME JOIN US IN EBISU FOR ANOTHER SESSION OF AIA JAPAN’S “BAR NITE”.
BRING YOUR FRIEND!
FOOTNIK BAR IN EBISU
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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
2024-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
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 experience and network, and areas of needed research to adapt to effects climate change will have on built environment. Discussion centered around a call to action from the audience.
Presenter: Michael Eliason: Founder, Larch Lab. Architect, author, Passivhaus specialist
Michael Eliason is the founder of Larch Lab – part architecture and urbanism studio, part ‘think and do’ tank – focusing on research and policy; decarbonized low-energy buildings; and climate adaptive urbanism. Michael is also a writer, and an award-winning architect specializing in mass timber, social housing, baugruppen (urban cohousing), and ecodistricts. His career has been dedicated to advancing innovation and broadening the discourse on sustainable development, passivhaus, non-market housing, and decarbonized construction. He serves on the board of Seattle’s new Passivhaus Social Housing Developer PDA. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and became a Passivhaus consultant in 2010. His professional experience includes work in both the Pacific Northwest, and Germany.
Learning objectives:

Articulate the difference between climate mitigation, and adaptation
Explain the extreme impacts climate change will have on buildings and communities
Understand design strategies that can be employed to adapt to extremes
Understand the risk and potential liabilities of ignoring climate change and building science.

Problem statement: Our buildings were designed for a climate that no longer exists.
The weather data for building envelopes and mechanical systems is based on historic averages that have been superseded by the last decade of Climate Change. These averages do not take into account wildly divergent peaks/extremes or the climate zone migration that is occurring with Climate Change. We are just beginning to see the extremes related to wildfires, flooding, and heat – and the impacts will be far reaching.
In 2014, the Supreme Court of California found that architects owe a duty of care to occupants and residents of buildings. The rapidly deteriorating weather due to climate change are affecting buildings in ways out-of-date energy models could never have predicted. Extended wildfire smoke events. Deluges dropping more water than roofs and drains can handle. Overheating due to poor design, which can become deadly during heat events on building configuration at 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Attendees will learn about building threats from climate change extremes, ways to mitigate them, and possibilities for reducing risks and liability as planners
Are your buildings and housing designed to adapt to climate change, or will it facilitate dangerous and potentially deadly outcomes for residents? Architects, developers, and owners will need to rapidly pivot to adapting to these new changes. This session will cover some of the threats involved with Climate Change, what strategies design teams and owners should be employing to adapt, and what the ethical liability and implications may be in a rapidly devolving climate.
Topic area: Building planning for extreme climate events: How building design today is not designed to mitigate and adapt to a wildly changing climate. Mitigating liability for practitioners by understanding how our buildings will perform in heat domes, cold snaps, wildfire smoke events, deluges – and migrating climate zones.
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Gallery MA Tour: Nosaku/Tsuneyama: Urban Fungus - Architecture is a Complex Mesh
2024-03-09 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | 東京都
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 Village (Toyama Prefecture); and ”House on Classical Elements” Smart Village in Akiya (Kanagawa Prefecture).
They received numerous awards including the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale Special Mention Award (for the Japanese Pavilion exhibition); the 33rd JIA Young Architect Award**; and the AIJ Selected Works Young Architect Award.***
* Mio Tsuneyama ** Fuminori Nousaku *** Fuminori Nousaku ＋Junpei Nousaku
All others works: Fuminori Nousaku ＋ Mio Tsuneyama
Mio Tsuneyama, Architect
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1983. Worked at Bonhôte Zapata Architectes (Switzerland) from 2005 to 2006. Received the Swiss Federal Government Scholarship from 2006 to 2008. Graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2008. Worked at HHF Architects (Switzerland) from 2008 to 2012. Established mnm in 2012. Assistant Professor at Tokyo University of Science (TUS) from 2015 to 2020. Special lecturer at TUS from 2020 to 2021. Visiting Professor at EPFL from 2022 to 2023. Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in 2023.
Fuminori Nousaku, Architect
Born in Toyama Prefecture in 1982. Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in 2005 and completed the graduate program at Tokyo Tech in 2007. Worked at Njiric+ Arhitecti (Croatia) in 2008. He has been leading Fuminori Nousaku Architects since 2010. Obtained Ph.D. from Tokyo Tech in 2012. Assistant Professor at Tokyo Tech from 2012 to 2018. Associate Professor at Tokyo Denki University from 2018 to 2021. Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in 2023. Currently Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Exhibition Description
Nousaku and Tsuneyama have been researching the relationship between architecture, cities, and ecosystems at universities in Japan and abroad while designing architecture and writing articles. They have been renovating the “Holes in the House,“ their home and office, from an ecological viewpoint by drilling holes in the slabs of the existing steel frame house to circulate light and heat, breaking the concrete-covered exterior with their hands, and improving the soil. It is a place of implementation where they experiment and develop what they learned elsewhere into upcoming projects. They attempt to bring the wild back into the city based on their idea of “Urban Wild Ecology” and actively incorporate traditional knowledge of stone masonry and wood framing as well as materials that return to the soil, such as straw and earthen walls.
They refer to cities as “human-influenced habitats for diverse organisms. “It decomposes part of contemporary cities faced with challenges, absorbs their nutrients, and grows like a fungus (mushroom.) They see architecture as a nexus point in the mesh of such decay and regeneration while striving to establish multispecies networks by using the wild and traditional knowledge to cut into the mesh and reconnect them.
This exhibition is an attempt to share their small trials and errors that everyone can emulate to reconnect the mesh through cross-sectional drawings and models of projects, including the proposed further renovation of the “Holes in the House” and the latest, “House on Classical Elements” Smart Village in Akiya. We hope viewers will perceive the possibilities and visions of architecture in the age of Anthropocene beyond it.

Ebisu Beer Nite Vol.3
2024-03-28 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
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
2024-05-16 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
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, embodying its aesthetic appeal while ensuring structural integrity and functionality. This presentation explores the intricate balance required in designing and implementing high-rise façades, where architectural vision meets engineering prowess. We explore the multifaceted considerations ranging from visual impact and environmental sustainability to structural stability and occupant comfort. Additionally, we examine innovative materials, technologies, and design strategies employed to achieve a harmonious synthesis of form and function in high-rise façades. Through case studies and examples, we illustrate the challenges and successes in achieving the delicate equilibrium between aesthetics, structural integrity, and functionality in the design and construction of high-rise façades.
Learning Objective 1:

Identify and describe the fundamental principles of high-rise façade design, including aesthetics, structural integrity and functionality.

Learning Objective 2:

Describe the structural analysis to assess the load-bearing capacity, wind resistance and seismic performance of high-rise façade systems.

Learning Objective 3:

Explore different façade materials in terms of their aesthetic qualities, durability and environmental impact.

Learning Objective 4:

Explore sustainable design strategies for high-rise facades, including passive design techniques, green materials and energy-efficient glazing systems.

Lecturers:
Timothy Soebroto
Regional Director – South-East Asia
Timothy has been in the facade industry for over 25 years. He has been involved in diverse roles and positions in facade contractors, from designing to managing facade projects; including assisting architects in designing facade systems to achieve required aesthetic. He has an extensive experience in the designing and managing the facade systems, especially unitized curtain wall. His work experience include; Resorts World at Sentosa, Thamrin Nine Development, which will be the tallest building in southern hemisphere, NESCO Development and Ocean Prestige Tower in Mumbai, India and Saigon Bin Anh in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.
Brian Leung
Regional Director – North Asia
With more than fifteen years’ inclusive experience in curtain wall consultancy and contractor for both Hong Kong, Macau and PRC projects, Brian familiarized in full range of practice in Façade industry, he is not only proficiency in design and engineering for curtain wall, cladding and non-load bearing structural steel structure systems, but also the construction management and project statutory administration.

AIA Japan Enoura Observatory Guided Walking Tour
2024-05-25 13:30 - 16:30 UTC | 東京都
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 art and culture within Japan and to the world and comprises a gallery space, a noh stage, revived Tensho-era tea ceremony room, the restored Muromachi Period Meigetsu Gate and a strolling garden. The Artist wanted Visitors to be inspired by art and to contemplate their own life through time, culture, past history and reconnecting with nature at Enoura.
Learning Objective 1:
Connect the purpose of art and revival of ancient traditions at Enoura Observatory with the mission of Odawara Art Foundation founded by contemporary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Learning Objective 2:
Understand the mission of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s New Material Research Laboratory to preserve traditional Japanese materials and methods of craftsmanship.
Learning Objective 3:
Observe Sugimoto’s production of classical Japanese theater arts to avant-garde stage art and exhibits of his photographs and art works created as a visionary tribute to nature and art.
Learning Objective 4:
Explore Sugimoto’s contemplative experience in architecture and landscape design in their ideal relationship with beautiful nature at Enoura in Odawara.
This Tour is pending CES 2 LU Credits.

Lecuture: Carlos Arnaiz
2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
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 the workings of individual parts. Studying different tendencies and aesthetic regimes that emerge across geographies not only deepens our systems-based design thinking, but also enhances our metabolic understanding of buildings within landscapes.
• Short bio—Carlos Arnaiz is an architect, educator, writer and urban design consultant. He is the founder and principal of CAZA, the co-founder of SURBA and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design at Pratt Institute where he teaches a class on the history of ideas about the city and a studio on multi-family housing. His professional experience ranges from the design and construction of large-scale mixed-used complexes to the development of strategic sustainability plans for new cities around the world. Carlos holds a Master’s Degree, with Honors, from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor’s Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Williams College. Carlos’ work has been recognized with prestigious awards such as two consecutive Progressive Architecture awards in 2008 and 2009 and the AIANY building merit award in 2008. His projects has also been selected as Finalist for ArchDaily’s Best Buildings of the Year, as well as Finalist for Architizer A+ Awards.
Registrants will receive an email with a QR code to enter the venu.
This is an in person event.
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Register here:
https://peatix.com/event/4016323/view

Shigenori Uoya: Gallery MA Visit
2024-06-15 | 東京都
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 nagaya (rowhouses) being demolished and replaced with condominiums and parking lots daily. In this context, Uoya strives to pass on the architectural legacy not only of machiya but also of alleys and allotments.
For example, in “Nagaya and Historical Alley with Containers,” he covered a corner of a nagaya building with a steel frame, combining it with containers to meet the needs of modern use while preserving the alley. The “Kakkyoyama Common Center for Gion Festival,” which received the 2023 Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Award (Work), is an extension combining an existing wooden construction with a steel frame construction to revitalize a historical meeting hall for the Gion Festival while leveraging the legal system for architectural conservation. By weaving modern technology into historical and regional contexts using various methods, Uoya aims to pass on streetscapes and buildings to the next 100 years to realize richer urban spaces and urban habitats. Based on his extensive hands-on experience in Kyoto, Uoya’s practice is expanding to other parts of Japan and abroad.
The exhibition title, “Re-Weaving Urban Fabrics,” expresses Uoya’s perspective on cities and architecture. The phrase “Re-Weaving Urban Fabrics” encompasses meanings of two phrases, “Layering Time in the City” and “Re-editing Urban Structures.” Through this exhibition, we hope to convey to visitors the possibilities of contemporary architecture that connects history and the future.

Register here:
https://peatix.com/event/3999323/view

CES Pending.

Shingo Masuda: Architecture from Outside
2024-07-19 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
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 outside – for example views that enter the building from windows and openings can completely alter the interior. Space, environment, and experience are continuous from the city and surroundings to the inside of buildings, yet buildings are generally still designed from the inside out.
This lecture and discussion will explore how to think about architecture beyond the building itself. Can we design from the outside in? How can we build up architecture from the outside?
About the Speaker
Shingo Masuda founded Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo in 2007 with Katsuhisa Otsubo. Their major works include Boundary Window (2014), Initiative Roof (2016), Heptad Pot (2021), and most recently Empty Drop (2024), for the Triennale Brugge in Belgium (Shinkenchiku July 2024 Issue).
Their office approach entails making careful observations and a thorough diagnosis of the daily activities planned for a site and the existing context, pinpointing the elements that can contribute most to shaping a place, and formulating a plan for what needs to be designed. This methodology reflects their pure attitude towards design, which drives them to purge their work of arbitrariness and approach things objectively. By being developed through this process, their architectural works that establish a bold presence even while melding into their surroundings are able to challenge our preconceptions and bring fresh wonder to familiar everyday landscapes.
Shingo Masuda graduated Musashino Art University and was the Baird visiting critic at Cornell University in 2015; a specially appointed associate professor at Meiji University from 2019-2022; In 2023, he was an adjunct associate professor at Hong Kong University and a Design Critic in Architecture at GSD Harvard University.

Mitsuhiro Kanada (arup japan) Socially Sustainable Way of Building -Natural Material as Catalyst for Community Engagement-
2024-08-02 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Manas Trading Showroom, Nakameguro Okura Bldg. 1-chōme-26-9 Kamimeguro, Meguro City, Tokyo, 153-0051, 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, we will prepare light snacks and drinks afterwards. This is a great opportunity to meet the speaker, browse the showroom, and socialize with other Tokyo architects, engineers and design professionals. We would like to thank our sponsor Lutron, for hosting this lecture.
Lecture Topic:
The lecture will begin with a general introduction of the role of structure in architectural design today. Through recent example projects, different ways of collaboration between an architect and an engineer will be presented. Building materials impact environmental sustainability. Natural materials can also encourage social sustainability of buildings. The scale of this impact is not only to the building occupants but also the local community. The lecture will show projected and actual impacts of built projects. Also, new and traditional natural material examples will be introduced through experimental projects.
Lecturer Bio:
Born in Tokyo in 1970. Mits Kanada has studied architectural design and structural engineering at University of California at Berkeley. After graduating from UC Berkeley with Master of Science, he has joined Arup, a global engineering consultancy based in 37 countries with more than 90 offices. Based in Tokyo and London, he has been involved in challenging projects such as Maison Hermes by Renzo Piano and Taichung Metropolitan Opera House by Toyo Ito. Since 2007 he has been teaching at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he researches the possibilities of modern interpretation of traditional Japanese materials and technology. He is a member of Arup Foresight + Innovation network, responsible for strategic future forecasting consulting through innovation.
CES: Learning Objectives: 1.5 LU pending
1. Participants will be able to identify the active role of structure within their architectural design.
2. Participants will be able to engage their design partners for more effective design collaboration.
3. Participants will be able to understand the social aspect of building sustainability with real examples.
4. Participants will be able to analyze how traditional materials could be used for modern use to satisfy current sustainability requirements.
Venue schedule:
Doors open – 18.45
Lecture start time – 19.00
Lecture end time – 20.30
Drinks, snacks, mingle, network until 21.15

TOSHIKO KINOSHITA "The Work of Heritage Houses Trust"
2024-09-07 11:30 - 13:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 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 exchange opinions on the current status of the preservation and utilization of historical buildings in Japan, including issues relating to inheritance,preservation and utilization and the role of architects in this field in the future.
Lecturer Bio:
Born in Kobe in 1969. Graduated from Japan Woman’s University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1993, Shibaura Institute of Technology with a Master of Science degree in 1995 and University of London with a Master of Arts degree in 1996. Rotary Foundation scholar at the Mackintosh School of Architecture from 1996-97. Doctoral student at University of Tokyo from 2000-05. Lecturer in architectural history at Tokyo Science University from 2000-05 and at Tokyo Denki University from 2006-08. She founded Community Housing Ltd. in 2013 with her partner Juan Pablo Ordonez Q. Currently a board of directors of Heritage Houses Trust and NPO Tamagawa Machizukuri House. Publications include ‘Visions of the Real: Modern Houses in the 20th Century I & II’(a+u, 2000).
CES: 2.0 LUs Approved
The work of Heritage Trust, non-profit organization, for preserving historically and culturally important residences designed by famous Japanese architects, is contributing to sustainability that the post-war approach of scrap and built, resulting in generation of large amounts of waste, is clearly not suited to the present age. It is time for Japanese people to learn to live in 100-year-old vintage houses, rather than being obsessed with newness and that old houses can be re-vitalized for the health, safety and welfare of its future occupants as well.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the number of factors that account for difficulty of preserving historical residences in Japan contributing to demolition of many houses that are still livable for health, safety and welfare of its residents.
2. Analyze how the Japanese real estate market is largely unreceptive of “used housing” including Japan real estate tax depreciation systems that encourage building of new homes instead of preserving houses of cultural value for the welfare of its neighborhood and community.
3. Describe that even when a property has been officially recognized for its historical and cultural value, the situation is precarious because it is privately owned and public financial support is weak. In many cases, the house is demolished at the time of generational change, to pay inheritance tax or/and inheritance division. Designation as a cultural property requires the agreement of the owner in practice and many owners hesitate their properties to be designated as cultural properties.
4. Explore the wonders of Sonoda House designed by Junzo Yoshimura and completed in 1955. Later in 1987, the addition was designed by Hiroshi Ogawa, former Yoshimura’s office staff. The house was successfully passed on to the present owner and now it is open to the public for music concerts and architectural visits.
Venue Schedule:
Doors open – 10:45
Lecture start time – 11:00
End time – 13:00
Venue info will be sent to registrants before the event.
REGISTER HERE

Sharon Prince: Introduction to Design for Freedom Lecture
2024-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 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 of this humanitarian crisis and highlight ways you can take action towards transparency. Learn about the tools and resources available to use in advocating for a more humane future.
The lecture will be followed by a short discussion between Sharon Prince, and SANAA founder and architect of the Grace Farms building Kazuyo Sejima.
This lecture will be in English with Japanese translations.
講演テーマ
「Design for Freedom」運動は、建築資材のサプライチェーンにおける強制労働や児童労働の蔓延をテーマとして啓発を行ってきました。依然として、建築業界は強制労働に大きく依存し続けています。この人道的危機のリスクを探り、透明性の確保に向けて行動を起こす方法を紹介いたします。そして、より人道的な未来を提唱するために活用できるツールやリソースについても共有いたします。
講演の後、シャロン・プリンスとグレース・ファームズ を設計したSANAAの建築家による短いディスカッションを行います。
本講演は英語で行われ、日本語通訳がつきます。
LECTURER BIO:
Sharon Prince is the CEO and Founder of Grace Farms Foundation, a new kind of boundary-defying public space that advances good locally and globally. Prince commissioned Pritzker Prize-winning SANAA architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa to design Grace Farms, which has become widely known as a global humanitarian and cultural center located in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Grace Farms is the platform for the Foundation and its interdisciplinary humanitarian mission to pursue peace through nature, arts, justice, community, faith, and Design for Freedom, a global new movement to eliminate forced labor from the building materials supply chain.
After recognizing a void in addressing exploitation in the building materials supply chain in late 2017, Prince launched Design for Freedom in 2020 with a first-of-its-kind publication, a nearly 100-page Report that provides analysis and data on how forced labor is embedded into the very foundations of our buildings. At the inaugural Design for Freedom Summit in 2022, Grace Farms also released the Design for Freedom Toolkit, a practical resource professionals use to implement ethical sourcing strategies into their practices. Design for Freedom Pilot Projects on three continents, including a new long-term exhibit at Grace Farms, With Every Fiber, are demonstrating that building more humanely is possible.
講師略歴
シャロン・プリンスはグレース・ファームズ財団の創設者兼CEO。グレース・ファームズは、地域そして世界における発展を志向した、境界なき新たな公共空間です。財団の拠点であり、自然、芸術、正義、コミュニティ、信仰、そして、建築資材のサプライチェーンから強制労働をなくすための世界的な新しい運動である「Design for Freedom」を通して平和を追求する、この学際的な人道的使命のためのプラットフォームでもあります。
2017年末に建築資材のサプライチェーンにおける搾取への取り組みが全くなされていないことを認識したプリンスは、2020年に「Design for Freedom」を立ち上げ、いかに私たちの周りの建築物が、強制労働の上に成り立っているかを示すデータとその分析をまとめた、これまでにない全く新しい報告書を発行しました。そして2022年の第1回「自由のためのデザイン・サミット」において、グレース・ファームズは「Design for Freedomツールキット」を発表しました。このツールキットは、専門家が倫理的な資材調達の戦略を実践するために役立つ実践的なリソースです。グレース・ファームズでの新しい長期展示「With Every Fiber」を含む3大陸での「Design for Freedomパイロット・プロジェクト」は、建築がより人道的になり得ることを示しています。
REGISTER HERE (for Zoom Webinar)
REGISTER HERE (for In-Person)

NCARB & You: AXP, ARE, & Certification - AIA Japan: Online Session on Path to U.S. Licensure
2024-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 東京都
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 to become an architect and other programs to get the most out of your career in architecture.
Topics will include:
• Background of NCARB
• The entities involved in the licensure process
• How to establish an NCARB Record
• How to progress successfully through the Architectural Experience Program® (AXP®)
• What to expect with the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®)
• Recent changes to NCARB programs • Value of the NCARB Certificate • International Pathways

Join our online session with NCARB to discuss and answer your questions on how to become licensed in the U.S. while based in Japan.
NCARB is the National Council of Architectural Registration Board headquartered in Washington D.C.
This session is free and all are welcome.
Registration here

Cero 9 : Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda Lecture
2024-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 東京都
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. It considers a range of complexities, difficulties and challenges, while celebrating richness and diversity. Worlding also implies the activity of worldmaking as the definition of alternative, as well as real, concrete and physical micro-worlds. The definition of these parallel yet plausible worlds, understood as small-scale and autonomous material environments, offers an alternative to the exploitation, constant transformation and exhaustion of our physical one.
About Cero 9
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda are principals and founders of the internationally recognized architectural practice amid.cer09. Founded back in 1997 as a collaborative platform to investigate the intersections between architecture, culture and nature, the practice has evolved into a research-based design practice focused on contemporary urban, technological and cultural challenges. Intensely committed to the development of methodological disciplinary processes, amid.cero’s projects combine constructive precision with conceptual clarity and uncover the specific opportunities and special nature of each context, cultivating an approach to the contemporary notion of space that enlists sociology, technology, media and politics.
With a vast academic experience, they have been recently appointed Professors and directors of the Studio 1 in the Institute of Architecture at the Angewandte, Vienna, succeeding Zaha Hadid (2000-2015) and Kazuyo Sejima (2015-2019). They have been Visiting Lecturers at SOA, Princeton University (2017-), Diploma Unit Masters at the Architectural Association (2009-18), Visiting Professors at the Institut für Kunst und Architektur at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna (2013-14, 2018-19), Design Critics in Architecture and co-directors of an Option Studio at the GSD, Harvard University (2015-2017) and Visiting Professors and Unit co-directors in the SAC StädSchule Architectural Class, Frankfürt (2016-2017).
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Underground Discharge Channel Tour
2024-10-26 12:00 - 14:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 東京都
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 high density urban areas. We will learn how this project was planned, built, and is being monitored to protect the city. The tour will be in Japanese with English Translations.
The channel consists of five D32m (105 ft) x H65m (213 ft) concrete containment silos connected by 6.4km (4.0 mi) of tunnels 50m (160 ft) beneath the surface. In addition, a water tank measuring L177m (581 ft) x W78m (256 ft) x H25.4m (83 ft) supported by 59 massive columns and connected to 78 pumps of 10 MW (13,000 hp) that can pump up to 200 metric tons (200 long tons; 220 short tons) of water into the Edo River per second.
This is a guided tour of the large stormwater management system protecting Tokyo and a visit to their exhibition. We will learn why so much effort was necessary to protect the city, how effective the system is. We will also explore what is being done to combat recent extreme weather incidences likely caused by the effects of climate change and what city projects can do to alleviate, if at all, the stresses on this system.
IMPORANT:
You will be required to climb / descend approximately 100 steps. There are no elevators or escalators, so you please be ready to walk and dress appropriately. The floor may be slippery so wear appropriate shoes.
The tour is free for AIA Japan members.
Due to limited capacity, AIAJ members will have priority over non-members. No children please.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Describe underground construction methods used for large scale infrastructure projects.
Identify risks and vulnerabilities of Tokyo city planning before and even after implementation.
Describe how the flood system is monitored and powered.
Describe the relationship between the man-made infrastructure and Edogawa River.

SCHEDULE:
12.00 – Meet at 〒344 – 0111 埼玉県春日部市上金崎 720 庄和排水機場内
12.00 – 12.50 Visit Underground Exploration Museum RYU-Q Kan
12.50 – Finish check in
13.00 – Tour start
14:00 – End Tour
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AIA Japan Board Meeting
2024-10-31 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 東京都
All members welcome.

onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h "Architecture, A Place to be Loved" Lecture
2024-11-09 17:00 - 19:15 (Asia/Tokyo) | Shibaura House, 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0023, Japan
Join us on Saturday, November 9 for a special lecture in English by onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h titled, “Architecture, A Place to be Loved.” They will introduce their works and exhibition now on view at Gallery Ma in Tokyo (on view until November 24).
The lecture will be held at Shibaura House and will be both online and in-person.
Registration
Register here to attend in person at Shibaura House
REGISTER HERE TO JOIN ONLINE ZOOM WEBINAR

Lecture Description
The lecture will explore the concept of architecture as part of a “living whole,” emphasizing its relationship with people, nature, and time. It suggests that the act of building is a collaborative process that nurtures architecture appropriate to its environment. The lecture will touch on the following topics:
Whole of Life: Architecture is intertwined with the act of living; it emerges from collaboration and is shaped by its context.
Spatial Totality: Architecture creates an internal world while also being part of the larger external environment. It serves as a link between these worlds, creating a continuum that connects various scales.
Temporal Totality: Architecture exists across time, incorporating influences from the past and future. Each material carries historical significance, prompting a consideration of how to create spaces that resonate with all temporal dimensions.
Irreplaceability of Existence: Viewing architecture as a living entity encourages a deeper appreciation that goes beyond function and performance. This perspective allows for a more holistic understanding that embraces imperfections and nurtures the relationship between architecture and nature.

About the lecturers
Maki Onishi

Born in 1983. Graduated from Kyoto University in 2006. Completed her master’s degree at the University of Tokyo in 2008. Co-director of onishimaki + hyakudayuki / o+h since 2008. Lecturer at Kyoto University since 2016 and Professor at Yokohama National University Y-GSA since 2022.

Yuki Hyakuda

Born in 1982. Graduated from Kyoto University in 2006. Completed his master’s degree at Kyoto University in 2008. Co-director of onishimaki + hyakudayuki / o+h since 2008. Worked at Toyo Ito & Associates from 2009 to 2014. Lecturer at Yokohama National University since 2017.

Their representative works include Shelter Inclusive Place Copal (Yamagata, 2022), Good Job! Center KASHIBA (Nara, 2016), Double Helix House (Tokyo, 2011), among others. They have won the AIJ Prize 2023 (Built Work Division) and the BCS Prize.

Schedule

16.45 Doors open
17.00 Program start
18.40 Apero (light drinks and snacks)
19.15 Program end

Venue

Shibura House （Google Map）

Naomi Pollock: Exceptional Japanese Houses from 1945 to the Present - Lecture
2024-11-14 18:30 - 20:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | マナトレーディング㈱ 東京ショールーム, 1 Chome−26−9, Nakameguro Okura Bldg., 4F, Kamimeguro, Tokyo, 153-0051, Japan
Naomi Pollock, FAIA: Exceptional Japanese Houses from 1945 to the Present
Join us on November 14 for a lecture by Naomi Pollock, FAIA titles, “Exceptional Japanese Houses from 1945 to the Present.”
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REGISTER HERE to attend in person at Manas Trading Showroom
REGISTER HERE FOR ONLINE WEBINAR

Lecture Description
The talk will describe the impact of social, technological, economic and historical developments on the evolution of the architect-designed, single family home in Japan. Examples of houses from the period spanning the 1940s to the 2020s will be used to illustrate these changes and how they impacted residential design. The selected houses will invite comparison between the building technologies and social organization of houses across the decades. Topics discussed will include the use of timber, steel and concrete construction as well as the changing family unit, separation of eating and sleeping, and the role of women.

Lecturer Info
Naomi Pollock writes about design and architecture in Japan. In addition to her articles, which have appeared in publications such as Dwell, Nikkei Asian Review, Wallpaper* and Architectural Record for whom she is a Contributing Editor, Pollock is the author of numerous books. These include The Japanese House Since 1945, Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook and NUNO: Visionary Japanese Textiles which she edited. She holds Masters degrees in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Tokyo’s School of Engineering. In recognition of her contributions as a journalist and critic, Pollock was invited into the College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects in 2018.

1 LU Pending
Learning Objective 1
Explore the innovation and unique qualities of Japanese houses from 1940’s to 2020’s.
Learning Objective 2
Describe how changes in family structure, especially the role of women, impact residential design in Japan.
Learning Objective 3
Compare how construction materials impacted single family homes in japan in the last 80 years.
Learning Objective 4
Compare issues of design of residential homes in Japan and US during this period.

Schedule
18:45 Venue open
19.00 Lecture + QA
20.15 Apero start
21.00 End program

End of the Year Party - AIAJ Bonenkai
2024-12-13 19:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | 東京都
Bonenkai is this Friday, Dec 13 in Aoyama!
Members – please let us know you are coming by registering HERE!
This event is open to:

Members
Board and committee members’s guests.
AIAJ invited guests

See you there!

AIA Japan AGM/Board Meeting
2025-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 東京都
Join Zoom Meeting from this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82731332957?pwd=[REDACTED]
