Japanese Contemporary
Architecture

School of Architecture
Schedule
Fall 2004
September 1   Introduction and Course Outline
    Language, Culture, Religion
September 8 Film: Dream Windows
September 15   Traditional Architecture -Nara, Kyoto, Ise, Izumo
    Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji, Ryoan-ji, Kyomizu dera, Katsura Rikkyo
Selection   Pluralism (selection of Architects for research presentation)
    See Student Work List
Landscape & Memory Exhibit Robeson Gallery Rutgers University
Reception & Panel Discussion with the Artists
Wed. Sept. 15, 2004 - 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
September 22   Meiji and the West
    Ginza, Kabukiza, J. Conder, FL Wright
September 29   Modernism
    Mayekawa, Kikutake, Tange, Shirai, Corbu
October 6   Metabolism
    Kurokawa, Shinohara, Maki, Ando
October 12 Tour

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Tea House 10:00 AM (Free)
Meet at the Brooklyn Museum of Art entrance to later visit the Japanese Garden

October 13 Film:  Arata Isozaki
October 20  Film: Three Generations of Avant-garde Architects
Hasegawa, Isozaki, Ito, Ando, Shinohara, Maki
October 27  

Student Presentation, 2 Architects (Graduate)

November 3 Tour

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street) meet in the lobby at 12:30 PM

URASENKE (Cha no yu Center)
Tea Ceremony 2:00 PM
153 E. 69th St. NY 212 988-6161

November 10   Student Presentation, 2 Architects (Graduate)
November 17   Student Presentation, 3 Architects (Graduate)
November 24   Thanks Giving
November 25 - 28   Thanks Giving
December 1   Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)
December 8  

Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)

   
Student Work - Fall 2004  Contact: Sergio Duran   duran@njit.edu