AIA Japan - Learning from Japanese traditional villages: Reflecting ecological knowledge on architecture utilizing simulation
Speaker
Norihisa Kawashima, Principal at Nori Architects, Senior Assistant Professor at Meiji University
CES: 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Event Description
Norihisa Kawashima will show researches and local practices in Japan to learn ecological knowledge from traditional Japanese villages and conventional architectural typologies through environmental analysis using computational simulation, and showed that we can experience and learn the traditional knowledge, which our ancestors established over a long period of time, in a short period of time using computational simulation, and we can apply the knowledge to design new sustainable architecture and city.
Speaker
Norihisa Kawashima, Principal at Nori Architects, Senior Assistant Professor at Meiji University
Host: Tomoaki Tanaka, AIA Japan Vice-President, Professor, Meiji University, Department of Architecture, School of Science and Technology
Moderator: James Lambiasi, 2008 AIA Japan President / Chapter Historian, Principal, James Lambiasi Architect
Born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1982, Norihisa Kawashima graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2005, earned his master’ s degree from the University of Tokyo Graduate School in 2007, after which he was hired by Nikken Sekkei. Kawashima became a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley and worked with Prof. Dana Buntrock and LOISOS + UBBELOHDE in 2012. In 2014, Kawashima became an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and jointly established ARTENVARCH. In 2016, Kawashima earned a doctor’s degree from the University of Tokyo Graduate School. In 2017, Kawashima established Nori Architects. Now Kawashima is a principal of Nori Architects, a principal of Regional Design Laboratory at Meiji University.
Representative works: Sony City Osaki (2011) , Diagonal Boxes (2016) , Yuji Yoshida Gallery / House (2017) , Saw-tooth Roofs in Ichinomiya(2017), and REVZO Tranomon(2020) . Awards:The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan (Architectural Design), 1st Prize（Prize from the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) in the 7th Sustainable Housing Award from IBEC, 1st Prize in JIA Sustainable Architecture Award 2020, and many others.
Tomoaki Tanaka is Professor of Department of Architecture, School of Science and Technology at Meiji University. He has been active in education and research on architectural design, site design, and architectural planning. He served as a Deputy Director of the Headquarters of International Collaboration from 2012 to 2016 and serves as a President’s Staff from 2016 to 2020. Tanaka is also a practicing architect as a principal of FORMS. He is a registered architect in Japan and New York. He is a member of American Institute of Architects, and currently on a Board of Directors of Japan Chapter. He serves as 2021 AIAJ Vice President and has been elected for 2022 AIAJ President. He also won Honorable Mention in 2018 and Award of Merit in 2008 in AIA Japan Design Award.
James Lambiasi has been a practicing architect and critic in Tokyo for over 25 years. He is the principal of James Lambiasi Architect, serves as a visiting lecturer at Shibaura University and Temple University Japan Campus, and acts as an independent business consultant for Japanese projects executed by the American architectural firm Pickard Chilton. He is a contributing architectural critic for the online publication Artscape Japan, and has hosted seven episodes of the NHK television series “Journeys in Japan” focusing on architecture in Japan. He is a founding member of the AIA Japan Chapter, and served as its President in 2008.
