 Lecture "Blurring Architecture"
| Date: |
November 25, 1999 |
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| Speaker: |
Toyo Ito (Architect) |
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| Venue: |
Yurakucho Asahi Hall |
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| Subject: |
Toyo Ito is an architect engaged in a quest for what architecture
should be in our age of electronics and ever-growing information intensity, of
rapid and dramatic social change. In this lecture, he presented his architectural
vision through projects currently in progress, including the Sendai Mediatheque,
which will be completed early in the new century.
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Lecture "Architecture and Criticism"
| Date: |
July 23, 1999 |
| Speaker: |
Josep Maria Montaner (Architectural Critic, Architect) |
| Subject: |
Josep Maria Montaner is one of the most penetrating architectural
critics living in Spain. In his latest book, "Arquitectura y Critica", he offers
a fresh look at the history of architecture, primarily in Europe and America,
following Modernism. He makes many sharp observations concerning contemporary
architecture. During this lecture he explored the objectives and significance
of architectural criticism, examining the aesthetic theories and cultural lineages
of representative 20th century critics, analyzing and criticizing their concepts,
aims and other difficult issues confronting critics today. |
Lecture "MVRDV: Recent Works"
| Date: |
May 26, 1999 |
| Speaker: |
Jacob van Rijis (Architect_<MVRDV>) |
| Subject: |
Jacob van Rijis is a member of MVRDV, the most active team
of architects currently working in Holland. In his lecture he used recent examples
of his work to discuss the atascape and Urbanism and Landscape concepts that embody
his thinking about the relationship of architecture to society, together with
the current state of support for architecture in Holland. |
Lecture "DES NATURES: Beyond Architecture"
| Date: |
November 19, 1998 |
| Speaker: |
Dominique Perrault (Architect) |
| Venue: |
YAMAHA Hall |
| Subject: |
The architectural philosophy of Dominique Perrault and his perspective on the city was discussed while slides of his projects were shown. |
Lecture "Alvaro Siza: Recent Works"
| Date: |
November 2, 1998 |
| Speaker: |
Alvaro Siza (Architect) |
| Subject: |
Alvaro Siza is famous for buildings that have won international
renown for the quiet poetry of their combination of regional tradition in Portugal,
on the Western boundary of Europe, with Modernist architecture. He spoke to us
of the thinking that went into his recent buildings at University of Porto, University
of Alicante, the Portuguese Pavilion for EXPO '98, and the Porto Museum of Contemporary
Art. |
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