AIA Japan

Tim Porter: designing space with an artist
2019-11-29 15:30 - 18:00 UTC
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

Don Yoshino
2018-05-10 19:00 - 21:00
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Don Yoshino, FAIA is principal of Yoshino Architecture, PA, located in Boca Raton, Florida. Since his graduation from CalPoly in 1965, he has embarked on a career with an international focus. Beginning with a graduate program at Kyoto University in Japan, where he studied Japanese architectural history. Don later remained in Japan as project manager and then as vice president-in-charge of the international division at several large international firms where he worked on projects for the U.S. government and the private sector in Asia. He then returned to the US to apprentice under world renowned Italian architect and visionary, Paolo Soleri in Scottsdale, Arizona at Arcosanti.
Don’s portfolio comprises all facets of architecture from industrial to residential, with some of his most notable projects including an award-winning 23-story luxury condo in Fort Lauderdale, several high-end, single-family homes in South Florida, as well as hotel design in Spain and India.
Don began his engagement in the American Institute of Architects in 1971 as a member, and served in numerous leadership positions at the local, state and national levels and was elevated to the College of Fellows in 2007. Don received his Fellowship (the highest level of recognition by the Association) in the category of Service to Society, for his leadership within the association and for his service to his community, most notably, as trustee and former BOT President of The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, where he continued his efforts to bridge the gap of understanding between Japan and America; and assisted in the seven-year development of the award winning Harriet & George Cornell “Rojien Gardens”. Recently Don has traveled to Tokyo, Japan with students from FIU study aboard program and assisted in the 4th year design project for the Morikami Museum.
In 2017 Don was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays medal from the Foreign Ministry of Japan for his continuous work in bridging the culture between Japan and the United States.

Nuno Soares: Shaped by Use
2018-03-27 19:00 - 21:00
Nuno Soares: Shaped by Use
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 @19:00 JST
SUMMARY:
Nuno Soares is an architect and urban planner based in Macau since 2003, spreading his practice through architectural design, teaching and research. As principal of his own office, URBAN PRACTICE, he develops projects ranging from the urban scale, to architecture and design, both in Macau and abroad. His work has been most recently exhibited at the UABB Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and Venice Biennale of Architecture.
マカオを拠点に活躍する建築家・アーバンプランナーであるヌノ・ソアレスと氏が主宰する事務所URBAN PRACTICEは、マカオを中心に世界各地で建築、都市計画プロジェクトを展開しています。世界で最も高密といわれるマカオにおいて、コミュニティと都市の関係及び進化の過程を独自の視点で探るソアレス氏の作品は、深センのUABB Bi-Cityビエンナーレ、ソウルの建築・アーバニズムビエンナーレ、ベネチア建築ビエンナーレ等で展示されました。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Nuno Soares is an architect and urban planner based in Macau since 2003, spreading his practice through architectural design, teaching and research. He’s Acting Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Saint Joseph, in Macau, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a frequent speaker, lecturer, and juror internationally. Currently the Vice-President (Zone C) of ARCASIA, he’s Director of the Architects Association of Macau (AAM), Member of the Education Working Group of the Congress of Portuguese Speaking Architects (CIALP), and Member of the Steering Committee of the UIA Education Commission. He founded and directs the Macau-based CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism, a non-profit organization with the mission to promote research, education, production and diffusion of knowledge in the fields of architecture and urbanism, taking local issues to a global audience. As principal of his own office, URBAN PRACTICE, he develops projects ranging from the urban scale, to architecture and design, both in Macau and abroad. His work has been most recently exhibited at the UABB Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and Venice Biennale of Architecture.
VENUE:
Arper Japan
Jingu Gaien Building 8F
2-7-22 Kita Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo
ADMISSION FEES:
Free
CES:
2.0 LU/HSW for AIA members
