Excavating Space and Nature in Tokyo
Toru Mitani, Manabu Chiba
This studio encourages students to reflect on the qualities of hidden nature and culture underlying…
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Tokyo: Future City, Future Citizens
The symposium “Tokyo: Future City, Future Citizens” will address how urbanism and architecture can…
Go Hasegawa, “Amplitude in the Experience of Space”
Rescheduled from February 9. “Architectural spaces can take away or awaken abilities…
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Muji chairman Masaaki Kanai and product designer Naoto Fukasawa
In 1980, Seiji Tsutsumi, a cultural intellectual and founder of the Saison Group, joined with other…
Architectural Ethnography: Atelier Bow-Wow
Atelier Bow-Wow investigates the living condition of people through various fieldwork and design practices. They observe architecture and its environments from a behaviorological point of view and always invent unique visual representations specific to the subject and scope at hand, like the book Graphic Anatomy (Toto, 2007). Their interests…
Kengo Kuma, “From Concrete to Wood: Why Wood Matters”
The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami shattered coastal cities in Japan in 2011.
KAWAII-KOWAI Amplifying the Affective Loop
by Erin Cuevas (MArch II '16) The proposal in Tokyo addresses the duality between Kawaii…
Horizon House: A Retreat in Nature
Horizon House was developed by a team of eight students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and was selected First Place in the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition, held on April 20, 2013 in Tokyo. The competition focused on the concept of…
Tokyo Study Abroad Studio: Transforming Omishima into a Beautiful Japanese Garden
Toyo Ito
Omishima is an island in Seto Inland Sea with the population of 6,000 people. Thirteen…
Fukuoka Project: Strategies for Urban Extroverts
Toshiko Mori
The studio will develop a contemporary vision for a new urban center following the relocation…