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Islands and Villages
What about the provinces?
posturban, Japan, Omishima, Toyo Ito, Momonoura, Atelier Bow-Wow, Umaki, dot architects, Kamiyama, Hajime Ishikawa, Inujima, Kazuyo Sejima
11 May 2018
Islands and Villages
A documentary series on the posturban phenomenon in rural Japan
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What about the provinces?
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postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Itsuko Hasegawa, Kozo Kadowaki, Shonandai Cultural Centre
6 December 2020
An Architect Who Works With Citizens
Kozo Kadowaki on the Shonandai Cultural Centre by Itsuko Hasegawa
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Bridging a Chasm
postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Toyo Ito, Commodified Housing Study Group, Koji Ichikawa, Kayoko Ota
23 January 2022
The exhibition presents the work of a generation of Japanese architects that reached architectural maturity at a time of unprecedented wealth in Japan. The six young architects included—Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama/AMORPHE; Norihiko Dan; Hiroyuki Wakabayashi; WORKSHOP; Hisashi Hara; and Atsushi Kitagawara—freely incorporate Western and Japanese architectural traditions. For this(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 April 1991 to 30 June 1991
Emerging Japanese Architects of the 1990s
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The exhibition presents the work of a generation of Japanese architects that reached architectural maturity at a time of unprecedented wealth in Japan. The six young architects included—Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama/AMORPHE; Norihiko Dan; Hiroyuki Wakabayashi; WORKSHOP; Hisashi Hara; and Atsushi Kitagawara—freely incorporate Western and Japanese architectural traditions. For this(...)
Octagonal gallery
According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
Topic: Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after World War II Presentation: Design for Society, Design from Society: The socio-political significance of minimum-size housing and prefabrication in Japan in the mid-twentieth century
13 August 2015
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Izumi Kuroishi
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Topic: Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after World War II Presentation: Design for Society, Design from Society: The socio-political significance of minimum-size housing and prefabrication in Japan in the mid-twentieth century
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Visiting Scholars 2015
Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Topic: Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after World War II Lee Stickells, University of Sydney, Syndey, Australia Topic: Designing Life Off-the-Grid: The 1970s Autonomy Moment Andrew Witt, Harvard Graduate School of Design,(...)
15 June 2015 to 25 September 2015
Visiting Scholars 2015
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Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Topic: Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after World War II Lee Stickells, University of Sydney, Syndey, Australia Topic: Designing Life Off-the-Grid: The 1970s Autonomy Moment Andrew Witt, Harvard Graduate School of Design,(...)
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15 June 2015 to
25 September 2015
Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
In this talk, titled Design the place for people to meet, Manabu Chiba will explain his approach to design with an emphasis on realizing architecture as a facilitator for new place-to-place, person-to-person and people-to-place interactions. His work attempts to reveal the context of a site and create formal simplicity, in order to nurture relationships among(...)
11 February 2016
Manabu Chiba wants to speak with you
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In this talk, titled Design the place for people to meet, Manabu Chiba will explain his approach to design with an emphasis on realizing architecture as a facilitator for new place-to-place, person-to-person and people-to-place interactions. His work attempts to reveal the context of a site and create formal simplicity, in order to nurture relationships among(...)