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June 6, 2015: Lecture “City Everywhere: Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen” by Liam Young

Published 2015年6月6日 by T—ADS

On June 6, 2015, it was our pleasure to invite Liam Young to present us with his lecture entitled “City Everywhere: Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen.”

Lecture Summary:
Our luminous technologies cast shadows that stretch across the planet. Join speculative architect Liam Young and a fictional Kim Kardashian as they go on a storytelling walking tour through the flickering screen and beyond the fog of the cloud, to explore the distant landscapes, factories and infrastructures that our contemporary digital gadgets set in motion. With spoken word and a rapid fire assault of film, animation and live sound mixing Liam and Kim journey through City Everywhere, an imaginary town of near future technologies stitched together from fragments of real places, extreme mega cities and speculative design fictions.



Biography:
Liam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group that explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanism. He co-runs the “Unknown Fields Division,” a nomadic studio that travels on expeditions behind the scenes of the modern city.

June 5, 2015: Lecture by Alejandro Zaera-Polo at Shimizu Corporation, co-hosted with Keio University

Published 2015年6月5日 by T—ADS
On June 5, 2015, we were honored to co-host a lecture by Alejandro Zaera-Polo in collaboration with Keio University.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo is the co-founder of Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Maider Llaguno Architecture, an international practice based in London, Barcelona & Zurich. He was a founding partner of London-based Foreign Office Architects. His award-winning projects include the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal in Japan, which is noted for the interplay of architecture, landscape and infrastructure. Among his notable projects are the Birmingham New Street Station Redevelopment, the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in the United Kingdom, the Carabanchel social housing project in Madrid, the Meydan retail complex and multiplex in Istanbul, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 International Expo in Aichi, Japan, and the Dulnyouk Publishing headquarters in Paju, South Korea. Zaera-Polo has received many prestigious honors for his work, including the Enric Miralles Prize for Architecture, five RIBA awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Venice Architecture Biennale Award and the Charles Jencks Award for Architecture.
While maintaining his international practice, Zaera-Polo has played a significant role in the academic discipline of architecture. In addition to his teaching at Princeton, he has served as dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and currently occupies the Berlage Chair at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and the Norman R. Foster Visiting Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale University. As a theorist, his writing has appeared in international publications such as El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+, Volume and Log. His writings are collected in “The Sniper’s Log” published by ACTAR, Barcelona in 2013. 

June 2, 2015: Lectures entitled “Points of Inflection” and “The Task of the Translator” by Thomas Daniell

Published 2015年6月3日 by T—ADS
On June 2 and 3, 2015, we were very fortunate to have Thomas Daniell from the University of Saint Joseph in Macau join us for a two-part lecture event. 

The first lecture by Thomas was entitled “Points of Inflection.”

The second lecture was presented under the theme of “The Task of the Translator.”

Many students attended the lectures and they were followed by lively rounds of Q&A. Good times were had by all. Please join us next time. 

Exciting Series of Lectures June 2~8th

Published 2015年5月25日 by T—ADS
We are hosting the symposium “The Saga of Continuous Architecture” on next Saturday and Sunday (for more info, please see http://t-ads.org/?p=206)
Related to the event, we have multiple upcoming lectures next week:
June 2nd 10:00-12:00 (at UTokyo, Engineer bldg.1 415 ADS Room)
“Points of Inflection”
Thomas Daniell (University of Saint Joseph)
June 3rd 18:00-20:00 (at UTokyo, Engineer bldg.1 Lecture room 15)
“The Task of the Translator”
Thomas Daniell (University of Saint Joseph)
June 4th 18:00-20:00 (at UTokyo, Engineer bldg.1 415 ADS Room)
“Staging the Confederacy: History, Geometry, and a Hint from Isozaki”
Todd Gannon (SCI-Arc)
June 5th 18:00-20:00 (at Shimizu corp) Attention: reservation needed (send your name to sekkeikikaku@shimz.co.jp by June 3rd)
“Alejandro Zaera-Polo Lecture at Shimizu”
Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Princeton University)
June 6th 12:30-14:00 (at UTokyo, Engineer bldg.1 415 ADS Room)
“City Everywhere: Kim Kardashian and the Dark Side of the Screen”
Liam Young (Princeton University, AA School)
June 8th 18:00-20:00 (at UTokyo, Engineer bldg.1 415 ADS Room)
“Shaken no Stirred”
Hernan Diaz Alonso (SCI-Arc)
Hope you can join us!

May 20, 2015: Special Lecture by Carlo Ratti (MIT)

Published 2015年5月19日 by T—ADS

Please join us for a special lecture with Carlo Ratti from MIT.

March 20, 2015
19:00-20:00
T_ADS Studio, Room 415
Engineering Building #1, 4F
Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo

Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. He is also a founding partner of the international design office Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy. Ratti was named one of the “50 most influential designers in America” by Fast Company and highlighted in Wired Magazine’s “Smart List: 50 people who will change the world.”
Ratti has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s ‘2008 Best & Brightest’ list and in Thames & Hudson’s selection of ‘60: Innovators Shaping our Creative Future. In 2010 Blueprint Magazine included him as one of the ‘25 People Who Will Change Architecture and Design’, Forbes listed him as one of the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011.
(bio via Wikipedia)

May 11th, 2015: “From Pulsation to Feedback” Lecture by Eric Goldemberg of MONAD Studio

Published 2015年5月8日 by T—ADS
On May 11 2015, we are very fortunate to have Eric Goldemberg of MONAD Studio join us for a lecture event.  
It will be held in the ADS Studio, in room 415 of Engineering Building #1 on Hongo Campus from 16:00-17:30.
The event is open to the public, so please feel free to join.



MONAD Studio was founded in 2002 by Design Principals Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg. 

Eric Goldemberg – Principal Designer 
Eric is an architect with a professional degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, New York. He worked for Peter Eisenman as senior designer for the City of Culture of Galicia, Spain and has headed design teams in several competitions. He was also project architect for Asymptote Architecture (Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture) on projects in Malaysia, The Netherlands and the Guggenheim Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico. Goldemberg is Associate Professor and Digital Design Coordinator at Florida International University in Miami where he teaches graduate studios and advanced digital design and fabrication courses. Previously, he has taught at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, New York Institute of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and University of Buenos Aires. 

April 13th, 2015: Structural Engineering Lecture 02 by Mika Araki of Jun Sato Lab, the University of Tokyo

Published 2015年4月13日 by T—ADS
Mika Araki from Jun Sato Lab gave the first lecture in a lecture series on structural engineering for the first year students. She showed the students how to conduct various material tests, but focused on bending in this lecture. Each project has its own material properties relevant to design, and thus, it is important to listen and learn from the experts. In the future, these experts who we invite for lectures will join us as jury members to select the final design for this year’s 2015 DFL research pavilion.


March 17th, 2015: Yokohama Redux – T_ADS seminar presentation

Published 2015年3月17日 by T—ADS


As part of the event “Yokohama Redux: The Saga of Continuous Architecture” on March 17 at Hongo Campus, following a series of theory seminars, students at the University of Tokyo presented their research and manifestos. The event consisted of mid-term presentations by design studios at Princeton, U-Penn, Columbia, and Nagoya Institute of Technology, and was joined by a seminar group from the University of Tokyo. The topic of the studios and the seminars was a revisiting of the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal Competition. This year marks its 20th anniversary. The event aims to examine and develop the concept of continuous architecture, which was the basis of the winning proposal for the architecture by FOA.

There was a full house for the event and it was followed by lively science-fair format discussions.
Please join us for this event next year.

March 17th, 2015: Yokohama Redux – Special Guest Lecture

Published 2015年3月16日 by T—ADS
We are hosting an event “Yokohama Redux: The Saga of Continuous Architecture” on March17th at The University of Tokyo.
After the mid-term review of design studios, we will have a marathon lecture series by Florian Busch, David Erdman and Tohru Horiguchi who will talk about issues on the concept of single surface/continuous architecture.
“Continuity and Difference” – Florian Busch
“underpressure” – David Erdman
“Single surface as an open function: Learning from the writings of Jeffrey Kipnis” – Tohru Horiguchi
THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC
When:
Special Guest Lectures: March 17th (Tuesday) from 17:00-19:30
Where: 
Special Guest Lectures: Faculty of Engineering, Bldg#1, ADS Studio 415