AIA Japan - Book Talk: The Making of The Critical House
When: Thursday 27 March 2025 @ 06:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 19:00 (Japan time)
Where: Lutron Asuka Co., Ltd., 1 Chome−1−1 Shin-Aoyama Bldg. West 14F Minamiaoyama, 107-0062 Japan/ ONLINE
Speaker
Mohammad Eimar, Mohammad Eimar Architects; leading design, KKAA
Masaru Otsuka, Institute of Science Tokyo
Koshiro Ogura, architect and researcher
Description
A lecture and discussion exploring the research and editorial process behind the book “The Critical House: Words of 20 Contemporary Architects (Shokokusha, 2024).
The newly released book, entitled in Japanese 住宅は、批評する, “Houses Criticize,” reflects on the post-WWII concept of “criticality” in the architecture of Japanese houses and its evolving role since the turn of the 21st century.How did criticality become a precondition for the design of a single-family house? What sparked the turn away from it? The Critical House unpacks the initial debates within the architecture scene of the 1990s at the juncture between the “critical” and “post-critical” eras.
