AIA Japan

An informal discussion to inspire, imagine, and think together the future of our cities and the way we live: Towers All around Me
2021-06-12 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
An informal discussion to inspire, imagine, and think together the future of our cities and the way we live: Towers all Around Me
Saturday, June 12, 2021 @18:00 – 19:30JST
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, New York, Shanghai, Dubai…. Modern cities grow towards the sky to create more space, more landmarks, and more density. How have towers changed our environment and our lifestyles? How long can they last? Can they change over time? How can they be more open for public use? This is an online discussion with architects from Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo to discuss current / recent works, emerging technologies, and how they are challenging the way we design and live with in cities today.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Ar. Florence Chan, Director at KPF
Florence Chan is an architect with experiences in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and China, with special interest on supertall building design. Ms. Chan’s completed projects ranges from highly complexed mixed use developments to supertall buildings. These include Victoria Dockside – a mixed use waterfront development in Hong Kong; Ping An Finance Center – the tallest tower in Shenzhen; and CTF Center – the tallest occupiable mixed use tower in Guangzhou. She is currently serving as the Vice President of AIA Hong Kong Chapter, and Board Member of the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Hong Kong Chapter. A believer in the power of education, Ms. Chan served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and frequents in reviews in local architectural schools. She received her Master in Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bachelor in Social Science (Architectural Studies) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Ar. Takeyuki Katsuya, Director at Nikken Sekkei
Takeyuki Katsuya is an architect with 1st class license in Japan. He joined Nikken Sekkei in 2000 after graduating with a master’s degree from Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. He has been involved in designing a wide range of buildings including the timber structure office Mokuzai Kaikan (2009); Toa Road Corporation Headquarters (2015); Sophia University’s Sophia Tower (2017); Maggie’s Tokyo (2017); and the Ariake Gymnasium (2019) dedicated to the International Big Sports Festival in Tokyo (2020-2021). He has also designed various projects in the Middle East, China, and Russia, including train stations and headquarters buildings. In 2016, his team won first prize at the International Design Competition for FC Barcelona’s home stadium design, the New Camp Nou. In 2019, his team completed the new high-rise tower, Shibuya Scramble Square in collaboration with Kengo Kuma and SANAA and designed the observatory, Shibuya Sky.
Ar. Midori Ainoura, Design Partner at PLP Architecture in London
Midori Ainoura has over 20 years’ professional experience designing complex office, residential, academic, institutional, and master planning projects across the UK, the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Midori led the design of The Edge, a multi-award-winning intelligent and sustainable icon in Amsterdam created for Deloitte. She is a founding member of PLP Labs, the practice’s in-house interdisciplinary research and consulting unit that challenges future urban issues from city, human and digital perspectives. She lectures regularly on next-generation workplace design and placemaking across Europe and Asia. Midori is also leading PLP’s Tokyo studio together with Raita Nakajima, the practice’s permanent representative in Tokyo.
ABOUT THE PANELIST:
Ar. Angela Pang, principal of PangArchitect
Angela Pang is an independent design practice based in Hong Kong and recipient of a Special Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Green Building Award from the Hong Kong Green Building Council. Always guided by site and program, the firm questions, investigates, and challenges conventional standards and seeks innovations and alternatives. Recent works include Student Dormitory for 300 students for the Chinese University of Hong Kong, renovation and extension to Lingnan University’s main library, Polytechnic University library extension and transformation, and the Shinohara Kazuo exhibition design held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the ETH in Zurich, and the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University. She has taught architecture design studios at the University of Hong Kong, Washington University in St. Louis, and Cornell University.

The Design of the Burj Khalifa by William F. Baker (SOM)
2021-05-29 10:00 - 12:00
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 the tallest high-rise building in the world. Bill will trace the early structural design development from the Competition held in 2003 to the Grand Opening of the building in 2010. The presentation will discuss what were the issues that dominated the design of the structural system and the resulting building form with the three wings, which step back in a spiral pattern ,buttressing the core. He will also discuss the impact the building has had on the surrounding properties (the Burj Khalifa Effect) over the past decade.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
William (Bill) F. Baker (SOM / Partner)
William (Bill) F. Baker is a Structural Engineering Design Partner for the architectural engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP. His work spans a wide array of structural engineering projects, ranging from small pavilions to the world’s tallest structure, the Burj Khalifa. One of the focuses of his research and design is the optimization of structural/architectural geometry to minimize the embodied carbon of buildings. He has an Honorary Professorship in Structural Engineering Design with the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge where his research and lectures focus on design and on adapting the contributions of Rankine, Airy, Maxwell, and Michell to structural optimization and modern structural design. Baker’s honors include being a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Gold Medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Fritz Leonhardt Preis (Germany), the Gustav Magnel Gold Medal from the University of Ghent, the Fazlur Rahman Khan Medal from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Outstanding Projects and Leaders Lifetime Award for Design. He has received Honorary Doctorates in engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Heriot-Watt University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Missouri.
His principle areas of interest and expertise concern the structural engineering design of buildings; most notably, tall and very tall buildings (skyscrapers), long span roofs and specialized structures. With a focus in tall building design, he has led the structural engineering design of 26 towers over 300 meters tall, including the world’s tallest manmade structure, the 2,700-foot-tall Burj Khalifa. His long-span roof experience varies from the cable-supported roof structure at Chicago’s McCormick Place North Building, the Broadgate Exchange House in London and the Entrance Pavilion for General Motors’ Headquarters in Detroit. His work on specialty structures ranges from the engineering of sculptures in collaboration with numerous artists, including James Carpenter, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, James Turrell, and Jaume Plensa to collaboration on highly engineered and detailed single family homes. Further interests extend to research and development related to structural optimization and structural topology. By exploring optimal topologies, he hopes to create new architectural design opportunities based on engineering principles.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After attending this program, participants will be able to:

Describe the key attributes and the name of the structural system of the world’s tallest building.
Explain why a point tower for normal height cannot be simply scaled up to the height of the Burj Khalifa.
Discuss the effect that the Burj Khalifa development had on the surrounding properties (the Burj Khalifa Effect).
Describe how the shape of the Burj Khalifa reduced the wind forces on the tower.

CES:
2.0 LU for AIA members

Delivering the Value of BIM to Owners with a Digital Twin by Marcus Kim (Autodesk)
2021-05-15 10:00 - 12:00
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 simplest, the digital twin represents a collection of digital data that represents for the AEC industry, anywhere from a general physical object to an engineering component, to a building. However, some mistake a digital twin to be nothing more than 3D; what people fail to understand is that a creation of a digital twin is intended to have a specific use case. During this presentation we will cover the following:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Marcus Kim (Autodesk / Executive)
Marcus Kim is an industry BIM expert with over 15 years experience working on and managing the BIM maturity, production, and maintenance of monumental scale architecture and design projects, utilizing the latest digital design processes and technology, with a focus on Enterprise BIM Implementation, VDC and Data analytics. Joining Autodesk in 2008, Mr. Kim has worked with many large international companies, with the mission to effectively advise and steer companies towards BIM business intelligence, through the development of workflows and standards. Currently at Autodesk, Mr. Kim is a Technical Solutions Executive, supporting Autodesk’s manufacturing customers who are actively engaged with implementing BIM for the development, construction, and maintenance of their facilities. Mr. Kim is the author of the Mastering Autodesk Revit for Architecture series (2017, 2018, and 2020), the definitive industry book on Revit and is a frequent speaker at Autodesk University.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants in this session will be able to:

Identify and summarize the digital twin concept
Identify the layers of information and data that are able to be incorporated into a digital twin
Understand what Owner’s are looking for in a digital twin
Explore examples of how utilizing digital twin would influence the AEC industry
Investigate a digital platform available to manage the data that comprises a digital twin

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

Learning from Japanese traditional villages: Reflecting ecological knowledge on architecture utilizing simulation by Norihisa KAWASHIMA (Meiji University)
2021-04-26 19:00 - 21:00
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 we can experience and learn the traditional knowledge, which our ancestors established over a long period of time, in a short period of time using computational simulation, and we can apply the knowledge to design new sustainable architecture and city.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Identify the local practices and traditions passed on through generations by the Japanese village ancestors to learn ecological knowledge and conventional architectural typologies by using computational simulation.
Apply the knowledge accumulated by the traditional village with the use of environmental analysis and computational simulation to design new sustainable architecture and the city.
Investigate the methodology of environmental research that was conducted in the traditional village of “Nishi Awa”.
Explore the possibility to re-interpret what was learned from the conventional buildings as contemporary architecture as in the case of “House with Saw-Tooth Roof in Ichinomiya”.

CES:
1.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

Human Wellness: Pandemic and Beyond Wellness Design to Build Environment by Luke Leung (SOM)
2021-04-26 00:00 - 02:00
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 firsthand of what the impacts can be.
In this presentation, the latest research on COVID-19 will be presented with quantifiable data on risk and impacts with a focus on how that impacts built environment design.
This presentation will also look beyond the current shadow into the holistic health impacts in our future and what are the strategies to make us healthier. Global population above 60 years old was about 7% in 1950, 13% in 2020, and likely 28% by 2070. With the aging of the population, next global health emergency can have more devastating impacts and can derail our future economy if they are not adequately addressed.
Our built environment and our life styles have been decoupled with nature and its natural cycles. The key for a healthy future will be a realignment with nature inside and outside of our built environment. The focus on this presentation will start with human centric health design, and move beyond to terrestrial health. Holistic health of humans requires also a healthy earth to thrive together.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants in this session will be able to:

Describe the importance of wellness in the future, including by 2070, the percentage of global population above 60 years old will increase from 13% today to 28%, which is also the age group that is prone to pandemic issues.
Plan for the global health threats of the future including not only pandemics, but also health issues from climate change (e.g. wild fire, air pollution), chronic diseases, etc. as laid out in the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION reports.
Explore the solution to health issues can lie in the physiology, building, community, and terrestrial health. The refocus on physiology of humans including respiratory system, the circulation system, the nervous system, the muscular system, the skeletal system etc. is important.
Summarize the single most important aspect of wellness is when human and nature thrive together. Terrestrial health in nature will impact built environment health.

CES:
1.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

Designing Buildings with Human Health, Welfare & Safety Priority by Stephen Tanno (SCHUECO)
2021-04-22 19:00 - 21:00
Designing Buildings with Human Health, Welfare & Safety Priority
by Stephen Tanno (SCHUECO)
Thursday, April 22, 2021 @19:00 JST (18:30 to 19:00 is a TEST SESSION)
SUMMARY:
Mr. Stephen Tanno, Director of Pre-Construction Services of Scheco International will talk about the theme of “Health, Welfare & Safety” encompassing sustainable, low-carbon, low-energy design and passive environmental control. He will define the principles of human-oriented comfort and highlight measures to enhance health and promote wellness. He will explain about products and options to reduce surface contamination to help deliver healthy buildings.
The presentation will include a case-study example of an educational building in London completed in 2020 which achieved a “BREEAM Excellent” certification. The building is an outstanding example of low energy design and collaborative working.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Stephen Tanno (Scheco Interenationnal / Director)
Mr. Stephen Tanno is a Director of Pre-Construction Services of Scheco International. He graduated from The University of Southampton in 1987 and worked as a Consulting Engineer for the next 16 years, including 5 years with Ove Arup in Sydney and 8 years as Group Director with Buro Happold, where he founded the Facade Engineering Group, in London. After 12 years working with premium European façade contractors, Stephen joined Schueco International in 2015 as Director of Pre-Constructions Services.
Stephen has worked on projects all round the world, is a chartered engineer and has a consistent track record of leading and delivering complex and bespoke high quality projects. He is a lateral thinker and has an all-round appreciation for design, engineering and build-ability. Stephen has extensive knowledge of project delivery from initial planning and design stages right through construction and handover.
In recent years Stephen has collaborated with numerous architects to develop sustainable and functional façade designs that went on to be implemented to a realistic budget through a reliable delivery mechanism by close collaboration with façade contractors.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants in this session will be able to:

Demonstrate that sustainability & conservation of resources can be achieved by using the principles of natural ventilation and thermal mass which also promote the health and welfare of building occupants.
Explain the idea of healthy buildings needing fresh air and discuss human wellness promotion by allowing connection to the outside but avoiding external noise pollution in city environments.
Illustrate that surface contamination with bacteria and viruses can be reduced through the use of anti-microbe and easy to clean finishes thereby promoting a healthy and safe environment.
Analyze the embodied carbon in buildings and the carbon footprint over the whole life of a building and demonstrate that it can be enhanced by low-energy good design and fine craftsmanship to build buildings that are defect-free and will endure for generations.

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW

Health, Wellness and Productivity Unlocking the Human Potential in Buildings by James Scott Brew (Nikken Sekkei)
2021-03-18 19:00 - 21:00
online lecture:
Health, Wellness and Productivity Unlocking the Human Potential in Buildings
by James Scott Brew (Nikken Sekkei)
Thursday, March 18, 2021 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Global green building rating systems are increasingly including new requirements connected to occupant health, wellness and productivity. In order to meet these evolving green building standards, we need to better understand the evidence-based health and wellness interventions that can directly impact worker productivity and well-being. The results of recent medical research that explores this connection between buildings and the health and wellness of its occupants will support the business case for healthier green designs, beyond energy savings alone. Several studies documenting human productivity gains and improved cognitive function will be referenced as evidence to support this topic. Case studies of built projects will highlight specific health and wellness strategies implemented.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants in this session will be able to:

Identify three (3) proven design strategies that impact worker efficacy.
Describe three (3) or more financial metrics related to worker performance.
Explain the relationship between building codes and health and wellness.
Explore specific strategies applied in actual projects used as case studies.

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

Locally-based Sustainable Design Approach for Walkability in Dubai by Takeshi Maruyama (American University Dubai)
2020-12-17 19:00 - 21:00
Locally-based Sustainable Design Approach for Walkability in Dubai
by Takeshi Maruyama (American University Dubai)
Thursday, December 17, 2020 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Since the discovery of oil in 1966 and its subsequent financial revenues, Dubai has been developing rapidly into a global city – while mainly adapting the western urban development style. Suburban growth exploded, with urban sprawl becoming an issue since the early 1980s. Local towns spread out and expanded in scale. Consequently, Dubai could be called ‘Cities within a city,’ representing many fragmented western-style suburban communities connected by automobiles. People often attribute problems with walkability or the limited pedestrian-oriented activities to the harsh weather. Still, harsh weather in Dubai lasts roughly four months out of the year, causing people to avoid the outdoors during that period. Nevertheless, the somewhat limited walkability continues throughout the year, even in the nicer weather. Then what is the leading cause of this phenomenon?
My study argues that this limited walkability is not due to weather but due to the urban structure caused by mega-developments in Dubai, which do not consider human scale or local culture. For instance, old districts such as Satwa or Karama have a more compact scale; therefore, pedestrian activities occur naturally. Aggressive adaptation of western-style urbanization completely goes against locally-adapted sustainable design approaches that ancestors have fostered in the city. Driveways and fenced-gardens have replaced the narrow alleys (Sikka) and the court-yard houses of the past. These drastically changed the structure of communities, therefore, impacting walkability as well as the health, safety and welfare of its residents.
This issue is a common theme discussed in the thesis courses and sustainability design studios, which I am instructing at the university. The lecture will demonstrate potential design solutions for walkability and enhancing outdoor public space usage within existing urban areas.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Takeshi Maruyama is a professor at American University Dubai
Takeshi Maruyama joined AUD as a full-time Assistant Professor in 2014. In 2019, he was awarded AUD’s Provost’s Award for creativity in Design and Visual Arts and was later appointed as Associate Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Art & Design in June 2020. Since joining AUD, he teaches the thesis course and the graduation design project for the senior students and courses related to sustainability, environmental systems, and building services for other years.
Prior to his teaching experience, he was a practicing professional architect for 25 years. After practicing in Takenaka Corporation, one of Japan’s biggest design-built companies for ten years, he moved to Dubai to join a local architectural design firm, dxb.lab architecture in 2006. Following five years of work with the firm, he launched his own practice, takeshi maruyama design unit, in 2011. In parallel, he currently works with another local architectural design firm, Archidentity, as an associate architect to manage projects.
Takeshi Maruyama is involved in various projects, not only from an architectural perspective, but also from an interior design one. His work can be seen in a multi-purpose networking space Shelter in Al Quoz and book Café The Archive in Safa Park. Mr. Maruyama’s work was also featured in several magazines such as Commercial Interior Design and Timeout Dubai. The Archive was introduced as a model of renovation at the UAE pavilion in Venice Biennale in 2014. His expertise covers all architectural design phases from concept design to site supervision. He is particular about the detail design cultivated by Japanese craftsperson-ship.
Mr. Maruyama has posted several articles in the Japanese architectural magazine Nikkei Architecture, such as Comparison of Design Progress between Dubai and Japan in 2007, Burj Khalifa Architectural Report in 2010, and Environmental Architecture in UAE/Dubai in 2017. In 2019, he was featured in The Middle East Architects Magazine, where he discussed ‘subtle sensitivity’ in design.
To connect Japan to the Middle East culturally, Mr. Maruyama holds a series of invited lectures in the universities and organizations in Japan to introduce the UAE and its culture. He also enhances the relationship with the Japanese embassy and consulates in Dubai, and the University of Tokyo, which resulted in the two universities collaborating and organizing joint student and faculty events.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Describe Dubai’s rapid globalism after discovering the oil and its implantation of western urban development, suburbanization, and mobilization style, and its impact on peoples’ health, safety and welfare.
Analyze current Dubai’s strategies on walkability applied in recent public and commercial development areas; and
Compare old traditional methods for walkability such as Sikka and wind towers originally in this region with current strategies.
Illustrate an example of an appropriate modern sustainable design approach based on local conditions using neglected Sikka spaces seen in the westernized residential area.

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW

Tokyo, Fukuoka and towards Asia by Hirokazu Suemitsu (Kyushu University)
2020-11-20 18:00 - 20:00
Tokyo, Fukuoka and towards Asia by Hirokazu Suemitsu (Kyushu University)
Friday, November 20, 2020 @ 18:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Despite having a humid subtropical climate characterized by warm and wet summers and relatively mild winters (central to western Japan), Japanese architecture has been heavily influenced by European culture and architectural movements.
Today, however, Japanese architects are beginning to realize that the country is in need of completely different climate solutions from those in Europe’s cold and dry climate.
Unfortunately, in many Asian countries, vernacular architecture, especially open-air spaces, have gradually disappeared, replaced by glass boxes and air conditioning common in the western world. It is time to propose a new Asian Architecture from Japan appropriate to the Asian climate and culture.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Hirokazu Suemitsu is a Architect, Associate Professor, Kyushu University
Hirokazu Suemitsu was born in Ehime, Japan in 1976.
Graduated with Bachelor (1999) and Master (2001) of Engineering from the The University of Tokyo.
Worked at Toyo Ito Architects and Associates from 2001 to 2006, in charge of international projects in the U.K. and Singapore.
Established SUEP. with partner Yoko Suemitsu in 2007.
SUEP. is a renowned young architecture firm in Japan, particularly for its specialty in sustainable architectural design.
SUEP. is known for incorporating environmental simulations, such as CFD or thermal simulations, integrating and implementing the results into its design.
Hirokazu Suemitsu has been an Associate Professor of Kyushu University since 2020.
CES:
1.0 LU/HSW

“DISTANCE VS INTIMACY” - FUTURE OF CONCERT HALLS AFTER COVID-19
2020-11-20 10:00 - 14:00
“DISTANCE VS INTIMACY” – FUTURE OF CONCERT HALLS AFTER COVID-19
Dr. Yasuhisa Toyota, Yoshihiko Sano, Hon. FAIA, Sakon Kimura, JIA
Friday, November 20, 2020 @10:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Experts in designing concert halls appear in this session. They believe in the power of music and architecture. Covid-19 has refreshed their minds and given them new insights into future concert halls. Yasuhisa Toyota, known as one of the best acoustic engineers in the world, will join the discussion with his design experiences of Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, etc. Yoshihiko Sano, Hon. FAIA and Sakon Kimura will reveal how Suntory Hall Tokyo was planned and designed. The discussion will be chaired by Yasushi Nishimura, President of AIA Japan.
ABOUT THE PANELIST:
Dr. Yasuhisa Toyota is founder, of Nagata Acoustics International. With over 40 years of experience in designing some of the world’s finest performance venues, Dr. Toyota is an established international authority in the field of concert hall design.
Dr. Toyota began his professional career in 1977, joining Nagata Acoustics immediately following his academic studies. In 2001, Dr. Toyota spearheaded launching an office in Los Angeles, and in 2008 Nagata Acoustics International, Inc. was formed. Over his career, Dr. Toyota has been project leader for more than 80 concert hall and multipurpose hall projects. His expertise focuses on hall configuration design and the design of acoustical spaces for orchestral, chamber music and other non-amplified musical genres.
Dr. Toyota received honorary doctorates of science from Bard College, NY and the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, in 2004. Other awards include:

Sound Engineers & Artists Society of Japan Award (2012)
Richard Colburn Award (Colburn School) (2018)
WATANABE Akeo Music Foundation Special Award (2020)
Among Dr. Toyota’s completed projects, some of the best known are:
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan (1986)
Sapporo Concert Hall (Kitara), Sapporo, Japan (1997)
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA (2003)
MUZA Kawsaki Symphony Hall, Kawasaki, Japan (2004)
Mariinsky Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia (2006)
Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark (2009)
Radio France Auditorium, Paris, France (2014)
Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai, China (2014)
Philharmonie de Paris. Paris, France (2015)
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany (2017)
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, Germany (2017)
Zaryadye Concert Hall, Moscow, Russia (2018).

Ar. Yoshihiko Sano, Hon. FAIA has worked as an architect since he graduated from Tokyo University of Science with the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Architecture) in 1979 and Master of Engineering (Architecture) in 1981. He worked in the design department of the Takenaka Corporation until 1986 when he joined Yasui Architects & Engineers, Inc. He was elevated to President/Principal Architect at Yasui Architects & Engineers in 1997.
In addition to his position as a leading architect and business leader, Yoshihiko is a respected force in the Japan Institute of Architects (JIA) and its relationship with the AIA. He became admitted to Honorary Fellowship AIA in 2016. Besides, he is an excellent and passionate academic teacher of architecture, and he encourages aspiring students with a sincere and earnest manner. He received awards including the following: Minister of Land, Transport and Tourism Award in 2011 and the Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan in 2019.
Yasui Architects & Engineers was established in 1924 by Takeo Yasui, Grandfather of Yoshihiko Sano. The firm is known as a legendary big design and engineering firm (377 professionals, including 194 Registered Architects /1st Class Kenchikushi). In Japan and Asian countries, Yasui Architects & Engineers projects include churches, skyscrapers, factories, universities, museums, sports, transportation facilities, and services also include urban planning, construction management and business consulting.
Director, Yasui Architects & Engineers
Ar. Sakon Kimura, Architect, JIA has worked as an architect since he graduated from Chubu University with the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Architecture) in 1977 and Master of Engineering (Architecture) in 1979.
He has been working in the design department of Yasui Architects & Engineers, Inc. since 1979.
He is director, Yasui Architects & Engineers, Inc.
He received awards including the following:

Chubu Architecture Award in 1988
Illumination Engineering Society of North America Award in 2006
The Prize of Architectural Institute of China in 2008
The Prize of Kanagawa Architecture Concours in 2012
Good Design Award in 2016
The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan in 2019.
Among Kimura’s completed projects, some of the best known are:
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan in 1986
Tokyo National Museum .Heiseikan in 1999
Tokyo Shiodome Building (CONRAD TOKYO) in 2006
Inner-Mongolia Theater and Museum, China in 2007
Marunouchi Trust Tower (Shangri-La Hotel) in 2008
Tokyo National Museum .Renovation in 2013～2019
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan .Renovation in 1991～2020

Innovation and Relevance in Work – Practice and Research by Brian Lee (SOM)
2020-10-24 11:00 - 13:00
Innovation and Relevance in Work – Practice and Research by Brian Lee (SOM)
Saturday, October 24, 2020 @11:00 JST
SUMMARY:
For SOM’s design practice to sustain the highest standard of excellence for over 80 years, there was and continues to be a shared culture based on a guiding vison – that innovation and relevance frames the work toward a better future. It is not enough to service clients and be satisfied with the status quo. Our profession must lead with addressing the issues of performance and sustainability, promoting health and wellness, and building equitable communities. We can do it by collaborating and integrating with others outside our discipline, investing in applied research, and dedicating our talents to projects that provide the greatest benefit to all of society. Brian Lee will present his experience as a Design Partner at SOM, leading talented teams in an international practice focused on diverse and impactful buildings. His research initiatives regarding how we live, how we build, and how we imagine the future has informed his design philosophy and process.
Included in the talk will be a presentation of several completed and proposed tall and super tall buildings designed to optimize program, structure, and enclosure, while being sensitive to site and context. The presentation will discuss the effect of wind engineering on building form and structural efficiency as well as the role of tall buildings in the urban setting. Three Chicago libraries, one combined with affordable housing, will show how designs for public institutions, often on severe budgets, are as important as the largest structures of our time. These civic structures promote educational, social, and economic equality in the city.
Research into the home of the future, high density living, and building a sense of community led to significant new thinking about the nature of tall buildings and the city. New materials and construction methods were developed in partnership with scientists and fabricators at a national energy laboratory and demonstrated with a full-sized prototype. Through collaboration with housing developers, contractors, cultural institutions, and health care researchers, SOM’s interdisciplinary design team was able to propose a series of initiatives that explored wellness and what contributes to a healthy environment.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Brian Lee, FAIA, is a Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), one of the most influential architecture, urban design, and engineering practices in the world. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Highest Honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and his Master of Architecture with Commendation from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978. After practicing in the SOM San Francisco office for 28 years, where he became a Design Partner, he joined the Chicago office in 2007, transitioning to Consulting Partner in 2019.
His portfolio encompasses domestic and international projects at all scales, recognized by over 100 significant awards such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Urban Land Institute, American Library Association, the Chicago Athenaeum, MIPIM, and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Brian has lectured, taught, and participated in studio reviews or Dean’s committees at Harvard, UC Berkeley, Stanford, California College of Arts, IIT, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Tech, and TU Delft; served on AIA, Athenaeum, Marcus Prize, and Spark juries; and has been published worldwide. His work was exhibited in the 2004 Venice and Beijing Biennales, featured at the 2008 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, and the 2015 Chicago Biennial. Brian is a registered NCARB architect and in multiple states across the nation, and is a LEED accredited professional. He is a member of the AIA and was named to its College of Fellows in 2008.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Identify how SOM has developed an acclaimed practice that combines practical solutions for context, program and budgets, with innovative concepts and strategies that exceed client’s expectations.
Explore innovations in tall buildings, showing how the integration of architecture and engineering led to successfully completed, high performance structures, as well as some of the most powerful, unique building blocks in city design.
Compare how small scale civic structures become important social, educational, and cultural hubs in emerging neighborhoods, and can be creatively co-located with another use to fit the needs of the entire community.
Describe explorations into construction and material technology, such as 3D printing, mass timber, and bi-directional energy sources, which became applied research projects for the future of housing and urbanism.
Illustrate tangible strategies for a healthy design that promote a sense of wellness through projects that demanded a more responsive and broad collaboration with developers, builders, engineers, and scientists.

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW

Public Space for All by Claire Weisz (WXY architecture)
2020-09-10 19:00 - 21:00
Public Space for All by Claire Weisz (WXY architecture)
Thursday, September 10, 2020 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
In the first two decades of the 21st Century, a changing urban context both locally and globally has brought into high relief the dilemma of designing for a single project. In this lecture and through a number of case studies from the recent work of WXY; the idea of public space being essential to all architectural projects, will be discussed and analyzed. Today public health, safety and wellness has put our built environments under scrutiny and is bringing new attention to important aspects of spatial organization of cities and the space that is shared through public systems and spaces. This moment is important for the reevaluation of priorities in design and planning. Examples will be shown elaborating on the benefits of urban design as key to a design approach for all building types in a variety of circumstances. Our digital age has created incredible challenges and opportunities at every scale of the built environment. This has pushed a new generation of designers to move beyond singular works of sculptural architecture into a more systems-thinking approach to urban regeneration. This lecture will explore these approaches through visual presentation of completed projects that deal with the challenges of social impact, resiliency and climate adaptation that affect the health, safety and welfare of inhabitants.
Claire Weisz FAIA is a founding partner of WXY, known for their innovative approach to community, public space, structures, and cities. Claire was awarded the Medal of Honor from AIANY in 2018 and was honored with the Women in Architecture Award by Architectural Record in 2019. WXY is globally recognized for its place-based approach to architecture, urban design, and planning, and has played a vital role in design thinking around resiliency. In 2019 Fast Company named WXY one of the World’s Most Innovative Architecture Firms.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Define the relation of public space to architecture and the relevance to different scales of projects.
Identify the vulnerability of current economic centers and characteristics of resilient design in public spaces that enhance the health, safety and welfare of inhabitants.
Understand the potential of designing for resilience at all scales using a combination of design-thinking and systems-thinking.
Evaluate the status of existing infrastructure and value of new infrastructure, through examples, to create an understanding of urban assets as infrastructure and infrastructure as urban assets.
Define resilient design, by examining completed projects, to integrate such approaches and features to their own work.

Our Climate Crisis: Challenges & Solutions for the Built Environment by James Scott Brew (Nikken Sekkei)
2020-08-06 19:00 - 21:00
Our Climate Crisis: Challenges & Solutions for the Built Environment by James Scott Brew (Nikken Sekkei)
Thursday, August 6, 2020 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
The conditions of Earth’s atmosphere today haven’t been seen for roughly three million years; humans have never lived on a planet like this. Changes are coming faster than most scientists have predicted—and society needs to change even faster. It’s a daunting task. Based on the book and research conducted by a team of international researchers for Drawdown.org (Paul Hawken), this presentation uses meticulously researched data that maps, measures, models and describes the most substantive solutions to the global climate crisis, for the built environment—that already exist.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Assess at least 3 built environment climate solution strategies and their relative impact on global emissions, over a 30-year timeframe.
2. Recall current total annual global CO2 emissions and visualize 1 ton of CO2.
3. Explain how individual or collective strategies can contribute to reducing CO2 emissions.
4. Identify at least 3 strategies that can be applied in their business and/or personal life.
CES:
2.0 LU/HSW

Innovating the Urban Fabric – Physical, Digital, Smart by Oliver Hans (SCHUECO)
2020-07-30 19:00 - 21:00
Innovating the Urban Fabric – Physical, Digital, Smart by Oliver Hans (SCHUECO)
Oliver Hans, Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc., Schüco International KG, Bielefeld, Germany
Oliver is an Innovation Manager at Schüco, one of the leading international suppliers for high-quality window, door and façade systems and has over 25 years of experience in building and façades.
After an apprenticeship as a carpenter he acquired his architectural diploma in Aachen and worked on a wide array of projects at different scales as an architect and engineer. Additionally gaining a master’s degree in building physics and technical services at the University of Wuppertal, he stayed on to head collaborative research projects on energy efficient buildings and façade optimisation for 7 years. As a tutor for building simulation, he also trained the next generation of architects there.
In 2014 he joined the product management team at Schüco where he was responsible for innovative façade products, including the award winning Schüco Parametric System. A complex 3D façade solution with a supporting digital design and fabrication process.
Oliver is passionate about cross discipline collaboration and is currently involved in facilitating innovation and the progression of the collective knowledge base at Schüco International KG.

New Challenges of Office Design During Covid-19 Crisis by Arper and LC Architects
2020-07-16 19:00 - 21:00
Title: “New Challenges of Office Design During Covid-19 Crisis”
A discussion among European, American and Japanese Architects hosted by Arper Japan’s Managing Director Alessandro Borelli. With the participation of Natassa Lianou and Ermis Chalvatzis (LC Architects). This open discussion-type presentation tackles the timely and pertinent issue of new challenges in the workplace created as a result of the current global COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The panelist will lead and discuss the following issues with the global audience to seek ideas and solutions that will contribute to health, safety and welfare in our workplace:

How COVID-19 could impact workplace design?
Working from home is the new normal now. But is it here to stay? Or is it just a temporary solution to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Will this global remote work experiment completely change the way we live and work? Is the future of work – remote?
With the COVID19 outbreak and the majority of workforce now working remotely, leaders have realized that a good percentage of the staff can work from home and continue to deliver results efficiently. This new normal poses the questions as to whether there is a need to maintain offices as before. Will we need to adopt new strategies to make our offices more humane, comfortable, and safe?
Pandemic-proofing offices could involve short-term fixes, new working patterns and long-term design upgrades that put hygiene at the heart of workplace planning.
Arper is trying to cope with the situation proposing some solutions that include products like Kiik, Cila Go and Paravan.

If you are interested in more information about it, you can visit our webpage: https://www.arper.com/ww/en/magazine/ideas/back-to-our-spaces or download our e-magazine https://www.arper.com/download/1/1661/4175/085_4175_1_Arper_BackToOurSpaces_2020.pdf
Four Learning Objectives
1) Discuss the possible way to cope with the new post-Covid-19 situation
2) Summarize the main challenges to the new design approach for the workplace
3) Identify new design strategies to create healthy and safe workplace environment
4) Describe the European approach to current COVID-19 crisis
LC Architects Bio
LC Architects is led by Natassa Lianou and Ermis Chalvatzis. Lianou and Chalvatzis are licensed architects, RIBA and ARB chartered architects in the UK. Their path is closely paralleled one another, with both graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, receiving their MArch in Architecture and Urbanism from Design Research Laboratory – DRL (2011) with distinction.
Prior establishing their firm, they have gained rich experience in various scale projects through their long course at Zaha Hadid Architects in London. While at ZHA they were Senior Architects and they were involved in various scale projects, from small scale products and interiors to towers, airports, stadiums and masterplans.
Some of the major and significant projects that they have worked on, while at ZHA, are the New Beijing Airport, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar, Tokyo National Stadium, Youth Olympic Centre in Nanjing, New Mercedes-Benz , Casa Atlantica in Rio Brazil, Ordos TV Tower, Sunland Towers in Brisbane Australia etc. Moreover, Lianou and Chalvatzis have collaborated for various projects with Alisa Andrasek, Biothing and they have worked at Acconci Studio at New York City.
LC Architects (LC-A) is an international award-winning signature architecture and design practice, based in London. Our portfolio spans from urban design, masterplans, towers, museums, residential and shopping malls, to interiors, pavilions, exhibitions and product design.
LC-A ‘s philosophy emphasizes on what they call ‘Smart Design Elegance’, bridging design, functionality, sustainability and elegance with structural and cost efficiency.
The quality and innovation of LC-A ‘s work has been recognized from awards such as the 2013 Chicago BURNHAM PRIZE and the Honorable Mentions from Europan 11. They have also exhibited in London Festival of Architecture, and lectured
SMART DESIGN ELEGANCE‘ PHILOSOPHY
In all our work we aim to address the specific features and constrains of each project and conditions, extracting their potentials and embedding them into our design approach, while always responding to the programmatic requirements and our clients’ agenda.
Efficiency, economy, sustainability and elegance are the key parameters in our design process.
Our design process is strongly engaged with cutting edge computational technologies, while through design research we push the boundary of architecture, technology, and innovation, exploring and creating the best solution for each situation.
Our collaborative office culture engages with clients, engineers and consultants, all contributing throughout all phases of each project. In that context our signature office aims to create iconic and visionary, functional and sustainable architecture and design in various scales, offering a fresh and unique identity to all projects that we
OUR VISION
Our vision is to promote the ‘Smart Design Elegance’ agenda, as we call our philosophy and design process, and create a new dialogue between various systems and subsystems which inform, alter and embed into the design. Simultaneously the final selection should propose efficient architectural solutions, respond and adapt to the current socioeconomic environment of each place, time and constrains, incorporating sustainability, materiality and aesthetics.

BYRON STIGGE (LEVEL INFRASTRUCTURE)
2020-06-11 19:00 - 21:00
BYRON STIGGE (LEVEL INFRASTRUCTURE)
Thursday, June 11, 2020 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
This lecture will describe the engineering and urban design approach of Level Infrastructure, an ecological engineering and infrastructure planning firm based in New York City. The introductory material for the presentation will describe our holistic perspective to engineering and infrastructure planning which integrates ecological, social, financial, and real-world constraints unique to each project. We begin our design process with first principles of engineering to try to find new design solutions that meet the aspirational goals of our clients. We often partner with local engineering firms across the US and around the world to be sure to integrate local practices into our award-winning designs. The first project will be the BIG U, a collaborative project with Bjarke Ingles Group and One Architecture, to devise an integrated flood barrier around the southern half of Manhattan. The magic of the design was the way design, programming, and engineering worked together to create a new edge to Manhattan that attracted and drew people to the water’s edge rather than creating a barrier between the city and water. Secondly our work on the Kabul Urban Design Framework will be presented to describe how the redevelopment of key corridors can revitalize a city that has seen decades of underinvestment and conflict. By integrating new Bus Rapid Transit line, green infrastructure, new sanitary trunk sewers, lush streetscape and street trees, and bike lanes can create a catalytic effect that spurs private development along the corridor. This project won the 2020 AIA Award for Regional & Urban Design based on the work of Sasaki Associates and Level Infrastructure. Then an interesting project for a hospital in rural Burundi will describe how the natural resources of a rural site can provide energy, water, sanitation, and waste management in an integrated way for a hospital with no connection to other public services. Lastly a recent River Study in New Clark City north of Manila, Philippines will show how to re-think urban stormwater to create flood resilience, a central urban park, and a sustainable water supply for a new city of one million people. We hope to inspire participants to expand their design skills both for projects within their region as well as around the world in places where those skills can have an even bigger impact on the everyday lives of people.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Byron Stigge is a Director at Level Infrastructure
As a global thought leader for urban infrastructure planning, sustainability, and resilience, Byron has a passion for understanding technical aspects of how cities function and the impact infrastructure can have on everyday lives. He studies and practices innovative methods of delivering energy and climate change planning, water and wastewater management, transportation planning, and solid waste management through an integrated design process. As Founding Director, Byron created Level Infrastructure to serve as a unique consulting firm that provides highly specialized technical and planning advice for development projects with grand aspirations to address climate change, resilience, economic justice, and environmental protection in cities around the world. Based out of Level’s New York City headquarters, Byron sits on the Board of Directors for the Forum and Institute for Urban Design. He also travels frequently as a lecturer, panelist, and jurist for design competitions around the world. Byron holds an M.Des degree in Environmental Planning from Harvard Graduate School of Design, an MS in Building Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in Civil Engineering and Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Explain the approach of integrated urban design where urban systems such as transportation, energy, water, and waste are all designed with consideration for each other to create cities with optimized ecological systems rather than over-engineered systems designed within the frame of single-disciplines.
Identify real-world examples of such an integrated approach to design of urban infrastructure including projects designed by Level Infrastructure as well as inspiring projects from around the world.
Describe the iterative design process between architects and engineers needed to create master plans, city-wide plans, and campus plans that closely respond to the climate, energy, materials, and transportation opportunities of every site in a unique way.
Summarize the benefits to health and well-being for clients and the ultimate benefits to end-users of the buildings and urban environments.

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

Considerations for Managing Mega Developments by Rick Broene
2020-06-01 19:00 - 21:00
“Considerations for Managing Mega Developments”
An AIA Japan Lecture by Rick Broene
Bio
Rick Broene is a creative real estate developer, a recovering planning and design professional, and an occasional academic. He has demonstrated exceptional leadership in renowned global companies and institutions, directing major real estate development portfolios and with expertise in strategic planning and economic geography, master planning and public realm design projects, architecture and product design.
Rick has dual graduate degrees in architecture and urban planning from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for research on development patterns in rural Turkey. Rick worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as a Director, leading mega-projects in the Middle East for three years. Subsequently he joined Emaar, the leading real estate developer in the Middle East, where he served as Director for Dubai Creek Harbour, Emaar’s largest mega development to date. Currently he is the Regional Director of Development & Design at Al-Futtaim, in which he is responsible for ensuring design excellence across the company’s extensive international portfolio of land holdings.
Lecture Brief
How does one build a city within 20 years for 200,000 residents?
Mega developments have played an increasingly prominent part of the global real estate landscape over the last few decades, especially in particular regions. The model yields exceptional opportunities to more holistically consider design at a range of scales and with a more direct and iterative feedback loop.
The lecture will provide an overview on mega developments, including the nature of participants, different development models, and developer objectives. It will briefly touch on different approaches to mega developments across the globe but will ultimately focus on examples from the Middle East, the world leader in this form of development.
The lecture will describe the process of mega development, covering feasibility assessments, master planning, along with the development and design of buildings and other assets. The talk will cover key challenges in mega developments with examples of development successes, failures and creative management techniques to deal with these. The insights shared will be especially valuable for architects and other creative professionals to better understand and add value to this unique form of city building.
Objectives

Increase general awareness on the nature of mega
Better enable professionals to address the needs of developers by highlighting typical objectives for mega
Prepare architects to better navigate the process of mega
Provide architects with insights on how to provide atypical and disproportionately high value to developers, through a better understanding of the criteria and complexities for development successes

Ryota Kidokoro (Arup Japan): Advanced Seismic Design Solutions for Innovative Architecture in Japan
2020-05-21 19:00 - 21:00
Ryota Kidokoro (Arup Japan): Advanced Seismic Design Solutions for Innovative Architecture in Japan
Thursday, May 21, 2020 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Structural engineers in regions of high seismicity such as Japan, constantly face the challenge of balancing what are seemingly opposing forces. On one hand, engineers are responsible to design structures to withstand some of the most onerous seismic and typhoon conditions in the world. On the other hand, in collaboration with some of the most innovative architect designers in the world, engineers have a duty to the owner client, and arguably to society, to create inspiring works of architecture, while providing safety and wellbeing of occupants. Despite these challenges, armed with a suite of seismic vibration control devices and systems, combined with advanced analysis capabilities, structural engineers continue to explore novel design solutions. This lecture will cover the design drivers, development of solutions, challenges, and final outcomes of three projects in Japan – each of which are completed buildings with differing seismic design solutions to realize innovative works of architecture. First of these pertains to the Self Mass Damper (SMD) system developed for Swatch Group’s flagship building in Tokyo. Mass dampers for the purpose of mitigating seismic responses typically requires the addition of significant mass in order to be effective – ultimately detrimental to the overall seismic performance of the building. To overcome this issue, the implemented SMD system utilizes the existing floor plates as mass dampers by decoupling them from the main frame. Using a combination of base isolation technology and the mass damper scheme, the SMD system is the result of a seismic control concept inspired by the pendulum movement in an antique clock. The second case study is on the effective use of a base isolation system as a design strategy for the Oita Prefectural Art Museum. To realize the architect’s vision of an open-box museum, the base isolation system was implemented to attain the highest level of seismic performance while enabling the desired long span obstruction-free exhibition spaces. The third case study project is the Orizuru Tower in Hiroshima Japan which demonstrates the possibilities of comprehensive renewals and retrofitting of existing buildings to revive and prolong the lifespan of the building for a more sustainable future, as well as providing safety from earthquakes and typhoons. A bespoke architectural and structural retrofit scheme consisting of newly constructed steel frame structures positioned on either side of the decades-old building, enabled additional floor area to be built while also achieving the robust seismic performance target of 1.5 times code requirements.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Investigate several types advanced seismic response mitigation systems to increase the resilience of the structure against large earthquakes and providing safety and wellbeing of the occupants.
Review the key components and design strategies of a base isolated structure.
Learn seismic retrofit technique that can be applied to increase the earthquake resistance of an existing building for increased safety and welfare of occupants.
Build understanding for challenges of realizing expansive atrium spaces in areas of high seismicity.

CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

AIA Japan 2019 year-end party
2019-12-14 14:30 - 17:00
AIA Japan 2019 Year-End Party and Design Awards Ceremony
Saturday, December 14, 2019 @12:30-14:30
Doors open at 11:45
SCHEDULE
OPTIONAL TOUR 1
Architecture Tour of Hotel New Grand
@12:00 – 12:30
OPTIONAL TOUR 2
Architecture Walking Tour “Historic Houses On The Bluff at Yamate, Yokohama”
@14:45 – 16:45
CES CREDITS:
1.0 HSW for Optional tour 1 “Tour of Hotel New Grand”
2.0 HSW for Optional tour 2 “Historic Houses On The Bluff At Yamate, Yokohama”
VENUE:
Hotel New Grand, Yokohama
Phoenix Room, Main Building 2F

Tim Porter: designing space with an artist
2019-11-29 15:30 - 18:00
Tim Porter: designing space with an artist
Friday, November 29, 2019 @15:15-17:15
Doors open at 15:00
SUMMARY:
Get lectured by TIM PORTER, a Canadian photographer, painter and filmmaker, known for his highly formalist photographs. He will share his ideas and thoughts about his works, in permanent display at the beautiful KINTAN restaurant in Ebisu. Enjoy a relaxed Friday afternoon with art, drinks, and stimulating talk. Also in attendance will be the store owner and interior designer of the restaurant. Tim Porter Studio
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Tim Porter is a Canadian artist and filmmaker born in Washington, DC, USA.
After studying modern literature and philosophy at the University of Virginia, he took up photography in Montréal in the late 1960s. His work was first shown in the 1969 national survey exhibition, A Review of Contemporary Photography in Canada.
Porter was active in the Vancouver art community during the 1970s, where he contributed to the controversial 1970 National Film Board of Canada show, B.C. Almanac(h) – C.B. In 1978, he first travelled to Japan thanks to an
arts grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa.
He has travelled and photographed extensively in Japan and parts of China, India and the South Pacific. His work has been exhibited internationally since 1980 and is held in numerous private and public collections.
Tim’s studio is in beautiful Zama, Japan – where he is a painter, filmmaker, photographer and aspiring Japanese gardener.
VENUE:
The KINTAN Steak, Ebisu Garden Place
Ebisu 4-20-3, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
ADMISSION FEES:
Free
CES:
2.0 LU for AIA members
Please pay for your own drink/food at the venue before or during the event.

AIAJ MOVIE NIGHT: HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?
2019-11-27 19:00 - 21:00
AIAJ MOVIE NIGHT: HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?
WEDNSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2019 @ 19:00
doors open at 18:30
SUMMARY:
The Goal of this program is to watch and discuss the short film about Norman Foster’s life and work. How Foster’s work improves the physical, emotional, and social well-being and address sustainability. Does more efficient use of material resources have the potential to improve the sustainability and affordability? Does Carbon Neutral City for 50,000 residents in Abu Dhabi to benefit the environment? How do users perceive and act in unusual structural behavior situations?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

The 2010 documentary on Norman Foster’s life and work, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? draws its title from Buckminster Fuller’s favorite question to architects, purportedly posed to Foster during a visit to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, completed in 1978. Implicit in the inquiry was Fuller’s call for more efficient use of material resources as part of a larger energy conservation strategy, and Foster claims he spent the next week coming up with the answer. This exercise clearly influenced Foster’s thinking, and the documentary includes footage of a 1980 client presentation in which he compares a mockup of a lightweight polycarbonate sandwich panel only a few inches thick to a 3-foot-thick brick wall, a 9-inch concrete wall with an air cavity, and a multilayered brick wall, concluding that the minimal sandwich panel performs equally as well as the other wall types. Foster asserts in the film: “Technology is the art of making things and high technology is performance.”
The virtues of Foster’s buildings are well displayed here. They’re sleek, graceful and aerodynamic. They employ streamlining and geometric forms both for strength and to appear (somewhat) less large and intrusive than they really are. They also use recycled materials and modern technologies to decrease energy costs.
The documentary explains how much Foster likes to tout about his unbuilt scheme “carbon neutral” city for 50,000 residents in Abu Dhabi. The aspects of improving the physical, emotional, and social well-being of users.
The documentary sidesteps controversies small and large. Foster’s Millennium Bridge in London, intentionally designed to sway as people crossed it, made pedestrians queasy; it was quickly closed so it could be stabilized, then reopened. The aspects of user perceptions and behavior in relation to structural behavior.

VENUE:
Nikken Sekkei Takebashi Office, 1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku Palace Side Building 8F, MeetingRoom1
ADMISSION FEES:
Free
CES:
1.5 LU/HSW for AIA members
Wine & snacks will be served in a networking session after the lecture.
講演後にワイン・スナック付き交流会を開催致します.
This program is for AIA MEMBERS ONLY and there will be a wine/snack discussion session after the movie.

SUSAN JONES: HOME | WORLD Rethinking Paradigms of Architecture
2019-10-10 19:00 - 21:00
SUSAN JONES: HOME | WORLD Rethinking Paradigms of Architecture
THURSDAY, October 10, 2019 @19:00
Doors open at 18:30
SUMMARY:
Rethinking paradigms of architectural means of spatial production, the small family home has long been a modernist means of investigation for architects in the 20th century, from Le Corbusier, to Adolf Loos, to Alvar Aalto, to Alvaro Siza to Kazuo Shinohara to Atelier Bow-Wow, just to name a few. The freedom afforded within the realm of intimate risk taking – be it by an individual client or a personal family home – has afforded architects the investigative means to explore the house not only as part of an urban spatial fabric and interior spatial relationships, but often, also the means to explore both material and production methodologies emerging on a larger, international scale. Susan Jones, FAIA, founder of atelierjones, a small Seattle, USA architectural practice will explore these issues in context of their CLTHouse. Using research as a design tool, the practice seeks out opportunities to explore existing production and ecological systems and then expand them at scale, maximizing disruption of conventional production methodologies creating broad, systemic change.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Susan Jones
–Founding Principal of atelierjones, based in Seattle
–Affiliate Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington
–A national leader in the building mass timber community
Atelierjones’ work entwines design, research, and community engagement to create projects of reclamation: of sites, buildings, materials, waste, and ways of living. An all-woman owned firm, Susan Jones, FAIA founded atelierjones in 2003, based in the ecologically rich US Pacific Northwest. With her staff of four their projects seek out sites and materials with inherent, but underutilized value – to harvest their embodied carbon and energy, their catalytic power for owners and communities, their beauty. Their design award-winning work creates delight and wonder in leftover, dirty, forgotten places and spaces, and materials. Ranked No. 7 in Design by Architect Magazine in 2017, atelierjones forged this cross-disciplinary approach through embracing methodologies mined from sustainability and materials research, from historic preservation and adaptive reuse movements, real estate development as well as community activism.
VENUE:
RIVIERA SHOWROOM
3-3-5 Akasaka, Minato City, Tōkyō
Sumitomo Life Sanno Bldg. B1
ADMISSION FEES:
AIA Members: Free
General: 1000 yen
Students: 500yen
CES:
1.5 LU/HSW for AIA members
There will be a wine/snack networking session after the lecture.

Stanley Saitowitz: Outsides and Insides
2019-08-07 19:00 - 21:00
Stanley Saitowitz: Outsides and Insides
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 @19:00
Doors open at 18:30
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ar. Stanley Saitowitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in 1974 and his Masters in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at numerous schools, including the Elliot Noyes Professor, Harvard University GSD (1991-2), the Bruce Goff Professor, University of Norman, Oklahoma (1993), UCLA, Rice, SCIARC, Cornell, Syracuse, and University of Texas at Austin. He has given more than 200 public lectures in the United States and abroad. His first house was built in 1975, and together with Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc., has completed numerous buildings and projects. These have been residential, commercial and institutional. He has designed houses, housing, master plans, offices, museums, libraries, wineries, synagogues, churches, commercial and residential interiors, memorials, urban landscapes and promenades. Amongst many awards, the Transvaal House was declared a National Monument by the Monuments Council in South Africa in 1997, the New England Holocaust Memorial received the Henry Bacon Medal in 1998, and in 2006 he was a finalist for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award given by Laura Bush at the White House. Three books have been published on the work, and articles have appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His paintings, drawings and models have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums.
SUMMARY:
OUTSIDES are about place, and building the city with continuity. Each project involves conversations with the found conditions of the particular site, both immediate and general, each infecting and inflecting the other. INSIDES search for ways of producing space as dispassionate frameworks of opportunity; instruments which free occupants to inhabit space at their will, more like a camera than a photograph.
VENUE:
Tokyo Arper Japan K.K..
HT Jingu Gaien Building, 8th F
2-7-22 Kita Aoyama, Minato-Ku Japan
ADMISSION FEES:
AIA Members: Free
General: 1000 yen
Students: 500yen
CES:
2.0 LU for AIA members
There will be a wine/snack networking session after the lecture.

Marcela Araguez: Frameworks of Uncertainty: Architectural Strategies of Control and Change in the Work of Cedric Price and Arata Isozaki
2019-07-11 18:30 - 21:00
Marcela Araguez: Frameworks of Uncertainty: Architectural Strategies of Control and Change in the Work of Cedric Price and Arata Isozaki
Thursday, July 11, 2019 @19:00
Doors open at 18:30
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
-Architect based in Zurich.
-MArch from the University of Granada in Spain.
-PhD in Architectural History & Theory from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Ar. Marcela Aragüez is a Spanish architect based in Zurich. She holds an MArch from the University of Granada in Spain and a PhD in Architectural History & Theory from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she was also awarded with an MSc in Spatial Design (UCL Turner Prize for best dissertation). Marcela’s research interest lies in the understanding of uncertainty as a spatial quality in architecture, with a particular emphasis on the investigation of post-war practices from a cross-cultural perspective. She is currently coordinating the joint research project ‘The Culture of Water’ between the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland and the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. A former editor of LOBBY and current editor of InForma, Marcela has lectured widely in the UK, Switzerland, Japan, France and Spain and her work has been acknowledged by grants and awards from institutions such as the Japan Foundation, Sasakawa Foundation, Canon Foundation and the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. She is a licensed practitioner with professional experience in Spain and Switzerland.
VENUE:
Tokyo Arper Japan K.K..
HT Jingu Gaien Building, 8th F
2-7-22 Kita Aoyama, Minato-Ku Japan
ADMISSION FEES:
AIA Members: Free
General: 1000 yen
Students: 500yen
CES:
2.0 LU for AIA members
There will be a wine/snack networking session after the lecture.

Li-Ren Hsiao: 150 years From traditional Hakka residence to modern Taipei public residences
2019-06-20 19:00 - 21:00
Li-Ren Hsiao: 150 years From traditional Hakka residence to modern Taipei public residences
Thursday, June 20, 2019 @19:00
SUMMARY:
The lecture will explain how the ancient Chinese art of Feng-sui is still a very applicable way of designing buildings by showing 150 years of Feng-sui architecture from traditional Hakka residences to modern Taipei public residences.
本講演では古代中国から伝統の風水が現代の住環境整備においても有効であることを、150年に渡る客家の伝統住居から現代台北の公共住居までの実例で示します。
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Explanation of the health related aspects of Feng-sui, which is a serial thinking of harmonious relations between ying/yang, outdoor/indoor, physical/mental and modern/tradition etc. Through harmonious relations, the circulation of energy, people can enjoy health and happiness. Through the progress of social changes, the core of space culture still remains.
Introduce the attendees to Feng-sui’s accumulated experiences in environment for thousand years. The knowledge leads us to a better relation with nature that can actually help us avoid the impact of natural disasters. Not only to avoid natural disasters but also to increase flowing of the energy (chi). Peaceful mind brings sustainable environment, and richness in life. Some Taiwanese modern residences still respect Feng-sui rules, some examples will address these points.
Teach the attendees the positive impact of Feng-sui on an aging Society. Because of the low birth rate, aging society need, more elder and younger friendly environment. The dramatic social change urges Taipei city government to build 50000 social residences and elder care facilities over the past 4 years. New eco-community has various social spaces and service facilities, trying to bring people, community and nature together.
Convey to the attendees how Feng-sui can help build strong community and societal ties. Community and families are separated and dispersed because of the modernization and industrialization. The lecture will address the on-going influences of Feng-sui and architecture design. The old and new eco thinking is either changed or unchanged through Taiwanese modern architectural progress. New communication devices, design technology (BIM) and circulation economy only strengthen the linkage of the community but also consolidate the structure of spaces and people.

VENUE:
Nikken Sekkei Takebashi office
1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
Palace Side Building 8F
CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members
Wine & snacks will be served in a networking session after the lecture.
講演後にワイン・スナック付き交流会を開催致します.

Kaz Yoneda: Tokyoism: Speculative Practice as a Metronomic ‘Other’
2019-04-25 19:00 - 21:00
Kaz Yoneda: Tokyoism: Speculative Practice as a Metronomic ‘Other’
Thursday, April 25, 2019 @19:00
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Kaz Yoneda is the founding principal of Bureau 0-1 (zero to one), Inc., an integrated full-service design practice grounded in architecture. With a process oriented ontological principles that evades any equilibrious or binary system, they offer a boundary-less and timeless design that seeks to question and escape conventionality. Perhaps this is rooted in his upbringing. Always a metronomic outsider to Japan, Kaz was born in Seattle, spent summers in Kansai, raised in California, then went on to receive B.Arch. from Cornell AAP, worked at Sou Fujimoto, and then back to receive M.Arch. II from Harvard GSD. A chapter turned when he arrived to Tokyo to startup Harvard’s Tokyo Studio with Toyo Ito, and further, as architecture director for Takram from 2011-2014. Through this lecture, Kaz will ruminate on the possibility of integrated theory-praxis emanating from Tokyo in all its singularity and hyperboles.
カズ・ヨネダは、2014年にBureau 0–1(ビューロー・ゼロ・トゥ・ワン)の拠点を東京に構え、空間構成、都市や建築設計、ブランディングやグラフィック・デザインなどと主軸活動に据えたオフィスを創設しました。プロセス重視の手法を基盤に、旧来の単純な白か黒かという二者択一に囚われずに、普通や標準となった概念を根底から捉え直し、様々な「境」を超えた新しい普遍性によって顕れてくるデザインを目指しています。それは、彼自身のメトロノームの様な外的存在として過ごしてきた生い立ちにあるかもしれません。本講義では、カズ氏の往来歴から見出してきた視点を基に、東京の独自性と拡張性からヒントを得られる理論と実践の両立や統合の可能性について話します。
VENUE:
Tokyo Arper Japan K.K..
HT Jingu Gaien Building, 8th F
2-7-22 Kita Aoyama, Minato-Ku Japan
ADMISSION FEES:
AIA Members: Free
General: 1000 yen
Students: 500yen

Sarah Bader(Gensler): From Chicago to Tokyo: Making Global Connections
2019-03-07 19:00 - 21:00
Sarah Bader(Gensler): From Chicago to Tokyo: Making Global Connections
Thursday, March 7, 2019 @ 19:00
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Gensler Japan Principal, Representative in Japan, IIDA, LEED®AP
Ar. Sarah Bader, as Co-Managing Director for Gensler’s Tokyo office, Sarah leads local and global teams as they create design solutions that meet both the aesthetic and business requirements for clients around the world. Previously, she spent three years as a Co-Managing Director of the firm’s Chicago office. Sarah’s strengths include analyzing strategic business goals and leading teams in the creation of world-class programming, space planning, conceptual development, and design development. As a project director, Sarah has spent two decades taking projects from concept through execution helping teams to understand issues and provide custom, client-focused solutions. Her background spans a wide variety of industries and project types and sizes. From new high-rise hospitals in the heart of a city’s bustling downtown, to familiar and intimate workplace design, Sarah sees design from multiple viewpoints and creates distinctive and compelling solutions for her clients.
ゲンスラーシカゴオフィスのマネジングディレクターを務めた後、東京オフィスの日本における代表に就任。医療関連施設やワークプレイスをはじめとした様々な業種のプロジェクト実績を持ち、ビジネス課題に対するデザイン的解決の提案に向けてチームを牽引。 25年以上の経験をもとに、戦略的ビジネスゴールの分析やコンセプト立案といったプロジェクト初期段階から設計段階まで、多角的にデザインを見ながら、エンドユーザーの立場に立った効果的なソリューションを提案しています。
Rehabilitation Institute Chicago- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

AIA JAPAN ANNUAL DECEMBER EVENT
2018-12-08 18:30 - 22:00
AIA JAPAN ANNUAL DECEMBER EVENT
ARCHITECTURE TALKS IN ENGLISH
POWERED BY PECHAKUCHA 2018.12.08 SAT @ 6:30PM

Phu Hoang + Rachely Rotem
2018-07-10 19:00 - 21:00
Phu Hoang + Rachely Rotem
Thursday, July 10, 2018 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Led by Rome Prize Fellows Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem, MODU is an interdisciplinary design studio creating architecture, urban spaces, and interiors. MODU has designed mixed-use facilities, outdoor pavilions, co-working spaces, urban homes, and other projects in between. Based in New York City, MODU also directs a think tank with diverse experts linking culture and industry, and collaborates with a community of leaders that includes climate scientists, sociologists, technologists, and interactive artists.
ローマ賞受賞者のフー·ホアンとラチェリー·ローテムが率いるMODUは、建築·都市デザイン·インテリアと多岐に渡る活動で知られるニューヨークの設計事務所 です。MODUは複合商業施設や屋外パビリオン、コワーキングスペース、都市住宅を 始め様々なプロジェクトで話題を呼んできました。世界中の気象学者、社会学者、科学者、インタラクティブアーチストとコラボレーションしながら、時代のカルチャーと産業界 を横断するシンクタンクとしての活動も見逃せません。
VENUE:
WeWork Ginza Six
Ginza Six 13F
6-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
ADMISSION FEES:
Free
CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members

Daniel Bonilla
2018-06-26 19:00 - 21:00
Daniel Bonilla
Thursday, June 26, 2018 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Daniel Bonilla, principal of TAB>I (Taller de Arquitectura de Bogotá), discusses Colombia’s built environment through Bogotá’s features and the impact of its local government based on four fields of exploration and research—void and mass, mutation, abstract building, and additive systems. Bonilla is a graduate of Los Andes University Bogotá, with a Master of Arts in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University, and further studies at the College of Technology in Dublin and Milan Polytechnic.
ダニエル・ボニージャはコロンビアの首都ボゴタの建築家で、設計事務所 TAB>I(Taller de Arquitectura de Botota)を主宰しています。この特別講演では、ボゴタ市の環境政策が当地の建築にどのように影響してきたかを説きながら、「ヴォイドとヴォリューム」「変容」「抽象的創造」「足し算のシステム」の４つのテーマで議論を 展開していきます。ボニージャ氏はボゴタのロス・アンデス大学を卒業後、オックスフォード大学でアーバンデザインを、ダブリンとミラノの工科大学で建築を学びました。どうぞ、ご期待ください。
VENUE:
WeWork Ginza Six
Ginza Six 13F
6-10-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
ADMISSION FEES:
Free
CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members
