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Pavilion’s Construction On-site

Published 2014年11月15日 by T—ADS
The construction of our Pavilion is starting on site. After a week of working on the footings, yesterday we began pouring the first chopsticks. 
Concrete footings on site. 

Pouring chopsticks.

1/8 part of the footprint has been poured with 15.000 chopsticks

STIK – 2014 Digital Fabrication Lab Research Pavilion

Published 2014年11月14日 by T—ADS

It’s been a while since we have posted here on our blog.

In the past 9 months, we have been busy developing our new design proposal for this year’s pavilion project which was developed in collaboration with Shimizu Corporation, one of Japan’s major construction company. In the coming days, we will upload images of our current activities and the past events.

Stay tuned.

Commune 246 project has started!

Published 2014年9月17日 by T—ADS

Exciting moment!! We get started with a project to construct series of food carts in Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo as part of cultural/commercial complex called “Commune246”, which is 25 months temporary multi-program facilities to utilize a vacant property where no permanent facility hasn’t been able to be constructed for long time due to its constraint. The project is commissioned by Sasuga-Sozo-Shudan lead by Teruo Kurosaki.

Lecture by Mohsen Mostafavi

Published 2014年2月11日 by T—ADS

Lecture by Mohsen Mostafavi
Title: Design Education and Societal Engagement 


Mohsen Mostafavi will give a lecture titled Design Education and Societal Engagement at Obuchi Lab this Saturday, 2/15 from 5:00 PM. The lecture will be followed by discussions with students and teaching staff. 

Mohsen Mostafavi, architect and educator, is the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. His work focuses on modes and processes of urbanization and on the interface between technology and aesthetics. 
He was formerly the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University where he was also the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture. Previously, he was the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He studied architecture at the AA, and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge. He has been the Director of the Master of Architecture I Program at the GSD and has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Cambridge, and the Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule).

Symposium with Maki + Isozaki + Hara

Published 2013年12月11日 by T—ADS

Symposium: Architectural Theory Now 

Participants:
Fumihiko Maki, Arata Isozaki and Hiroshi Hara
with Kengo Kuma, Yusuke Obuchi, Hidetoshi Ono, Manabu Chiba

Here are images of the symposium that took place last weekend at the University of Tokyo. Instead of having a marathon presentation by the guest speakers, the symposium was organized as a roundtable discussion.