Lab Cafe Special featuring Creative Island Lab Nakanoshima 02
"Island" in the world's cities
Date and time: Saturday, August 25, 2018 16:00-18:00
Venue: Art Area B1
Participation fee: Free
Talk Guest: Taro Igarashi (Architectural historian, Professor, Graduate School of Tohoku University)
Cafe Master: Chieko Kinoshita (Art Area B1 Steering Committee Member)
"Nakanoshima" in Osaka is Nakasu (island) about 3 km east-west between Dojima River and Tosabori River. With the advantage of water transportation, it was pioneered since the Azuchi-Momoyama period, and has developed as a cultural and economic center of Osaka until today. In other parts of the world, like Nakanoshima, there are many good examples of creative urban development centered on cultural arts and academic hubs such as Île de la Cité in Paris and Museum Island in Berlin. This time, we invited Taro Igarashi, who works not only on architectural criticism and architectural history, but also on architectural and artistic curation from a broad perspective and unique perspective, to discuss examples of cultural islands overseas and the potential of Nakanoshima as a city's Nakasu, while referring to the social and cultural utilization of watersides in cities such as the Agir Frottan, a refugee camper designed by Corbusier.
Taro Igarashi| Taro Igarashi
Born in Paris in 1967. Architectural history and architecture critic.
In 1992, he completed a master's degree in the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo. Ph.D. (Engineering)
Professor, Graduate School of Tohoku University.
He is artistic director of Aichi Triennale 2013, commissioner of the 11th Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition Japan Pavilion, and oversees "Window Studies Exhibition - The World Seen from the Window".
Received the 64th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Newcomer Award. "What Le-Corbusier Aims: Theory and Development of Modern Architecture" (Aodosha, 2018), "Why Japanese Architects Are Loved by the World" (PHP Research Institute, 2017), "Introduction to Japanese Architecture - Modern and Tradition" (Chikuma Shobo, 2016) and many other books.
