AIA Japan - Possibilities of In-Between Space by Ken Tadashi Oshima
When: Friday 6 May 2022 @ 21:00 (Eastern US Time)/ Saturday 7 May @ 10:00 (Japan time)
CES Credits - Estimated 2.0 LU for AIA Members
Speaker
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Professor, the University of Washington, Seattle
Description
This lecture is the first one of two lectures that AIA Japan and I-AUD, Meiji University jointly host for Spring Semester 2022.
This talk examines architectural design processes between Japan and a global constellation of creators, cultures and contexts through time and space. Notions of translation will be explored as a dynamic, creative process of transformation through examples ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in comparison to his Midway Gardens design in Chicago, to the work of contemporary architects from Kengo Kuma to RCR and beyond.
Speaker Bio
Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches trans-national architectural history, theory and design. He has also been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and UCLA. He is a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians for lifetime achievement and served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians from 2016-18.
Dr. Oshima’s publications include Kiyonori Kikutake: Between Land and Sea (Lars Müller/Harvard GSD, 2015), Architecturalized Asia (U. Hawai’i Press/Hong Kong U. Press, 2013), GLOBAL ENDS: towards the beginning (Toto, 2012), International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku (U. Washington Press, 2009) and Arata Isozaki (Phaidon, 2009). He curated “GLOBAL ENDS: towards the beginning” (Gallery MA, 2011), “Tectonic Visions Between Land and Sea: Works of Kiyonori Kikutake” (Harvard GSD, 2012), “SANAA: Beyond Borders”” (Henry Art Gallery 2007-8)and was a co-curator of “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive” (Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2017) and “Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi Raymond” (UPenn, UCSB, Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, 2006-7). He was an editor and contributor to Architecture + Urbanism for more than ten years, co-authoring the two-volume special issue, Visions of the Real: Modern Houses in the 20th Century (2000). His articles on the international context of architecture and urbanism in Japan have been published in journals including Architectural Review, Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Kenchiku Bunka, Japan Architect, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, and the AA Files.
