Japanese Contemporary Architecture

School of Architecture
Schedule
Spring 2008
Jan. 23   Introduction and Course Outline
    Language, Culture, Religion
Jan. 30 Film: Japan History part I & II
Feb. 5 Lecture Japan Society
  Optional Tadao Ando (Sold Out)
Feb. 6 Film: Japan History part III & Dream Windows
Feb. 13 Selection Pluralism (selection of Architects for research presentations)
    See Student Work List
    Traditional Architecture -Nara, Kyoto, Ise, Izumo
  Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji, Ryoan-ji, Kyomizu dera, Katsura Rikkyo
    Meiji and the West
Feb. 20 6:00 PM Discovering Japanese Modern (presented by the Noguchi Museum & AIA)
    Panel discussion with Phil Patton Moderator
    The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
Feb. 20   Ginza, Kabukiza, J. Conder
    FL Wright
Feb. 27 QZ-1 Quiz -1
Feb. 27 12:15 PM Meet in Class
Tour 1:45 PM Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street) meet in the lobby at 1:45 PM
  2:30 PM Tea Ceremony 2:30 PM
URASENKE (Cha no yu Center)

153 E. 69th St. NY 212 988-6161
meet in the front entry at 3:00 PM
Mar. 5   Modernism
    Mayekawa, Kikutake, Tange, Shirai, Corbu
    Metabolism
    Kurokawa, Shinohara, Maki,
Mar. 5 6:00 PM Kazuyo Sejima - Recent Projects
    Princeton University
Jan. 29 - Jul. 20 Optional Asia Society
  Exhibit Chinese and Japanese Art from the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection
Mar. 12 Film: Tadao Ando & Arata Isozaki part I & II
Mar. 17 ~ Mar.23   Spring Recess (No Class)
Mar. 19 No Class Spring Recess (No Class)
Mar. 26 QZ-2 Quiz -2
Mar. 26 Film: Three Generations of Avant-garde Architects
Hasegawa, Isozaki, Ito, Ando, Shinohara, Maki
Apr. 2 Presentation Student Presentation, 3 Architects (Graduate)
Apr. 5 (Sat.) ~ May 11 Hanami Festival Brooklyn Botanical Garden (Sakura Matsuri)
Tour 2:00 PM Meet at the Brooklyn Museum of Art entrance to visit the Japanese Garden
  2:10 PM Visit the Japanese Garden and view the Sakura
    Photos
Apr. 9 Presentation Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)
Apr. 16 Presentation Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)
Apr. 23 Presentation Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)
Apr. 30 Presentation

Student Presentation, 4 Architects (Undergraduate)

 
 
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Events posted for your information are optional (not required for class credit)
Student Work  Contact: Sergio Duran   duran@njit.edu