Designing with Disaster is the second iteration of the Living with Disaster exhibition, which took place in Tokyo in 2022. Designing with Disaster brings the content to Los Angeles to be displayed in a new context and is accompanied by events and symposia.
A powerful and optimistic array of innovative urban designs focused on withstanding natural- and human-instigated disasters while simultaneously responding to the multiple hazards of climate change.
January 27 – April 02, 2023 @ Daily 11:00am – 7:00pm Exhibition – Designing With Disaster: Stories from Seven Regenerative […]
The fourth and final webinar in the Rethinking of MA Webinar Series will examine the role of MA in Japanese film. Our guest will be filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, whose film Drive My Car, is Japan’s official entry for Best International Feature Film for Academy Awards 2022 and is now on the Oscars shortlist for this category. Hamaguchi, a renowned director and screenwriter who first gained attention for The Sound of Waves and Voices from Waves, his thoughtful documentaries (co-directed by Ko Sakai) about survivors of the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake, as well as several recent dramatic full-length feature films, pays close attention to timing, pacing and “space” in his films.
The third webinar in the Rethinking of MA Webinar Series will examine conceptions of MA in contemporary Japanese cuisine. Our guest will be Prairie Stuart-Wolff, a writer, photographer and producer of the Japanese food and culture website www.cultivateddays.co. Living and learning in rural Japan, among a community of ceramic artists, she has developed a unique perspective on Japanese food cultivation, preparation, and presentation, both traditional and contemporary. Professors Hitoshi Abe and Ken Tadashi Oshima, hosts of the Rethinking of MA series, will moderate the conversation with Stuart-Wolff, discussing the importance of MA/seasonality in the choice of ingredients, MA/the symbiotic relationship between food and the dishes in which it is served, and the rituals of the table that guide how food is received.
The second webinar in the Rethinking of MA Webinar Series will examine MA in Japanese contemporary architecture. Manabu Chiba, Professor of Tokyo University and Principal of Chiba Manabu Architects, will share his views about the role of MA in the design of contemporary public space, where MA is translated as “Relationship/Distance between people." Together, the speakers will explore how the idea of MA has shaped Chiba’s approach to designing Japan’s public architecture and community environments and his philosophy for teaching the next generation of Japanese architects. The webinar will conclude with an audience Q&A.
This year Rumble Event framed a unique occasion when students from parallel studios: Fire City: Towards Regenerative Urbanism with Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch. Research Studio) and Fire LA-ND with Jeffrey Inaba and David Jimenez Iniesta (M.S.AUD Research Studio) showcased their works to the guests of the event. During the event, A.UD faculty and students engage the broader architecture and urban design discussions about the future of design and the built environment under the conditions of changing environment. With its twin focus on fire-risk-reduction and fire-resilience, the joint studios draw from a diverse network of educational partners and researchers. Throughout the year, FireCity and FireLand studios accommodated presentations from fire-related, city planning, and urban design experts in local regeneration efforts, architects, and researchers. Students in parallel studios are developing diverse proposals based on shared findings. Because architecture yields insights through both research and design, the studios are organized to take the best advantage of both modalities of exploration – Research Studio and Suprastudio formats. The parallel structure is intended to share AUD’s cross-campus intelligence through a feedback loop of collaboration and dialogue among the students and across the globe with other ArcDR3 participants.
ArcDR3 Event: ArcDR³ Forum Vol.2: Learning from Tohoku takes place online on March 5, 2021, at 4 pm PDT/March 6 […]
The 2019-2020 WORKHOUSE Latent Futures Research Studio is the final of the WORKHOUSE Trilogy. Starting in 2017, the WORKHOUSE Research studio has built on previous xLAB research initiatives to explore the gray zone between domestic and workspaces and activities. With the support of Mitsui Fudosan—a leading real estate company in Japan, xLAB’s ongoing research examines the relationship between architecture and broad shifts of technology, economy, and lifestyle. The final WORKHOUSE Studio focused on creating architecture as a platform for actively producing the future.
Designing the Future was a panel discussion organized by Japan House Los Angeles that took place at SCI-Arc on October 25, 2018. Panelists Liam Young, Peter Frankfurt, and Sou Fujimoto each presented their unique view of the future, followed by a conversation moderated by Hitoshi Abe about how each one is working to actively produce the future.
On July 31, 2017, Greg Lynn gave the Keynote Lecture at the inaugural xLAB Summer Program. The lecture was titled, Localization: Static […]
