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Lecture by Janette Kim

Published 2013年8月5日 by T—ADS

Room for Debate

Lecture by Janette Kim

Date: 8/7, 5:30 – 6:30 pm

Location: Obuchi Lab, Room 416

Janette will discuss how headphones, a map, a guidebook, and a big styrofoam wall can start a public dialog about urban life, in real time. Janette’s work focuses on design and ecology in relationship to public representation, interest, and debate.

Janette Kim is a designer, critic and educator based in New York City. She is a faculty member at Columbia University GSAPP, where she directs the Applied Research Practices in Architecture department, and the Urban Landscape Lab. Janette is principal of All of the Above, a research and design practice.

Kenzo Tange Symposium

Published 2013年7月22日 by T—ADS

This year marks the centennial anniversary of Kenzo Tange’s birth. In connection to a symposium, an exhibition is organized in the Architecture Library displaying Tange’s graduating thesis project from Tokyo University in 1938. There are a series of events have been planned in various places in Japan to cerebrate his lifelong achievements.

The symposium was joined by Tange’s colleagues, former students, and office staff who discussed what was it like to work for him.

GA Interview

Published 2013年7月5日 by T—ADS

Yoshio Futagawa of GA came to Obuchi Lab and interviewed Prof. Obuchi a range of issues from current projects to his background story.

G30 Summer Pavilion Work in Progress 02

Published 2013年7月3日 by T—ADS

This year’s G30 Pavilion will be constructed with a series of components that are made of thin sheets of aluminum cut/weld with robotic fabrications. The welded aluminum sheets are then inflated with high-pressure air, making the components into 3D form.

In addition to material research in computational fabrications, we are experimenting with its assembly system. Instead of putting the components on site piece by piece, all of them are linked together to create a 2D surface first and then lifted with a series of cables to form a 3D shell structure. The assembly process is analogous to the way puppets are performed by a hand.

Adaptive Morphology, Kuma – Obuchi Undergrad Design Studio

Published 2013年6月22日 by T—ADS

This year’s Kuma – Obuchi Undergrad Design Studio is joined by Keisuke Toyoda and Junichiro Horikawa of Noiz Architects, Sota Ichikawa of doubleNegatives Architecture, and Kaz Yoneda of takram design engineering. Under the title of Adaptive Morphology, the ambitions of the studio is to explore evolutionary design processes.