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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 “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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]