AIA Japan - Nature in and around Buildings
When: Thursday 30 September 2021 @ 06:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 19:00 (Japan time)
CES Credits - 2.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker - Junko Anazawa, Principal of Atelier Fuuchi
Description
In a country with diverse topography and rich plant community, Japanese have developed human-nature intimacy and unique spatial relationships between buildings, gardens, and landscapes.
Now we live in a society where the majority of the population live in dense urban areas and average 90% of time spent indoors. We are facing the challenge of our time, like other countries globally, how to create a natural environment that is accessible by city dwellers and workers and how to reconstruct human-nature relationships that contribute to physical mental well-being. Now, nature in and around buildings has become essential. And creating those environments can be achievable by holistic design approaches.
This lecture will share some recently built projects that suggest strong landscape – architecture ties. This will open discussion of how knowledge and expertise of landscape architecture can contribute to the effort of human-centric placemaking.
Speaker Bio
Junko Anazawa, Principal of Atelier Fuuchi was born in 1972 in Tokyo Japan, she received bachelor’s degree in Urban Sociology from Tokyo Women’s Christian University and master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts (Current Weitzman School of Design) and went on working for local urban design/planning firms in Seattle, WA. Since relocating back to Japan in 2004, she has been practicing landscape design at Landscape Design, Inc. and Mitsui Jun and Associates Architect, Inc. She became independent in 2020, founded Atelier Fuuchi as her own design practice.
Her more than twenty years of professional experience includes single family residential, multi- family residential, hotels, office, and urban master planning projects of both public and private sectors.
Find out more about her work on Mitsui Jun and Associates Architect, Inc.
