Japanese Contemporary
Architecture

School of Architecture
Schedule
Fall 2005
September 7   Introduction and Course Outline
    Language, Culture, Religion
September 10 Lecture Shigeru Ban @ (Asia Society)
Saturday 4:00 PM
September 14 Film: Dream Windows/ Japan History
September 21 Lecture Visiting Author and Professor Azby Brown (Tokyo)
Small Spaces - The Very Small Home
September 28   Traditional Architecture -Nara, Kyoto, Ise, Izumo
    Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji, Ryoan-ji, Kyomizu dera, Katsura Rikkyo
Selection Pluralism (selection of Architects for research presentations)  
    See Student Work List
October 5   Meiji and the West
    Ginza, Kabukiza, J. Conder, FL Wright
October 12   Modernism
    Mayekawa, Kikutake, Tange, Shirai, Corbu
October 19   Metabolism
    Kurokawa, Shinohara, Maki, Ando
TBA Tour

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Tea House
Meet at the Brooklyn Museum of Art entrance to later visit the Japanese Garden

October 26 Film:  Arata Isozaki
November 2  Film: Three Generations of Avant-garde Architects
Hasegawa, Isozaki, Ito, Ando, Shinohara, Maki
November 9   Student Presentation, 3 Architects (Graduate)
November 16  

Student Presentation, 3 Architects (Graduate)

TBA Tour

Tea Ceremony 2:00 PM
URASENKE
(Cha no yu Center)

153 E. 69th St. NY 212 988-6161
meet in the front entry at 1:30 PM

November 23   Student Presentation, 3 Architects (Graduate)
November 24 - 27   Thanks Giving
November 30   Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)
December 7   Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)
December 14  

Review

   
Student Work - Fall 2005  Contact: Sergio Duran   duran@njit.edu