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A selection of images from artist Mitsuko Asakura who combines Japanese traditional dyeing and weaving with the techniques of Western tapestry.
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by Yasufumi Nakamori
Using the ephemeral and transcendental qualities of light, architect-artist Yumi Kori affects the way we see and feel the world. Her art installations and architecture challenge our conventional sense of space and the relationship of our physical “self” to the space around us.
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This discussion of contemporary design included graphic designer Kenya Hara, industrial designer Masamichi Udagawa, and Tatsuya Matsui, who designs humanoid robots. The panel was moderated by MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli.
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A discussion of the importance of craft and materials, including Kengo Kuma, Kengo Kuma Associates and Terunobu Fujimori, Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, moderated by Clifford Pearson, Senior Editor, Architectural Record.
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by Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993 and founder of architecture firm Maki and Associates, discusses the relationship between technology and architecture.
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by Hiroyuki Suzuki
Architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki discusses current plans to develop Tokyo, comparing them to the “rescue construction works” implemented by village heads and nobles in the Edo period.
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A discussion about how space is perceived in Japan, including Sanford Kwinter, design theorist and Associate Professor of Architecture, Rice University, and Waro Kishi, Waro Kishi + K. Associates, moderated by Ken Tadashi Oshima, architectural historian, Sainsbury Institute Fellow, London.
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A panel on contemporary architecture including Jun Aoki, Jun Aoki and Associates, Kazuyo Sejima, Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA Ltd., and Richard Gluckman, Gluckman Mayner Architects, moderated by Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University.
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Recent masterpieces by Japanese ceramics artists, representing what is arguably the most vibrant and important contemporary ceramics culture.
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Sobuku, which means simple, unsophisticated, and artless, applies to the traditional crafts that evolved in the countryside of Japan—objects that were made of natural materials and intended for everyday, practical use in the rustic life of common Japanese.
