Introduction:

I am interested in architectural form. In this lecture, I would like to use examples from American architecture to tell the fun of architectural form. Architectural forms have their basic prototype, which is then transformed to suit the needs of particular place and/or time. This process of transformation is the work of design. Additionally, there are also forms that do not take the prototype into consideration like early modern architecture. I hope that through my lecture you will be able to feel the pleasures of architecture.

Lecturer:

Izuru Ichihara

PhD, Architect, JIA, AIJ

Professor Emeritus

Tokyo Polytechnic University

School of Architecture

Izuru Ichihara is an architect and has been a professor specializing in the theory of architectural design at Tokyo Polytechnic University.

He majored in architecture at The University of Tokyo and was conferred Bachelor in 1981, Master in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1993. His doctoral dissertation was based on his research on historic American suburban houses, with a focus on the living porch as a distinctive feature of those houses, which he conducted at University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1991. The dissertation was later published as Living Porch: Dream of American Suburban Houses in 1997. Other major books are Architecture of New Mexico: Church of Stone, Earth and Light in 2000, Dictionary of Theory of Architecture in 2008, “Form” and “Design” in Architecture in 2009 and Architecture / Formal Language in 2022, Form as seen in 2023. Some of them are co-authored.

He is also well-known for his experience in architectural design, having designed many notable buildings, including HOUSE XX in 1990, IC2 in 1995, IC3 in 2000 and ten works at Tokyo Polytechnic University, such as Tokyo Polytechnic University Gymnasium in 2003, HP Studio ORANGE in 2004 and so on. He is now the principal of his own design office, i-chi.lab..

Host:

Prof. XIE Hui

Date:

19:00 June 2nd, 2023

Event Location:

The 1st Lecture Hall, School of Civil Engineering