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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]