Architecture Talk Series: Cities And Urban Living In Japan 1868-2025

February 9-March 2, 2023
Sydney
Australia and Online

Curated and hosted by Dr. Raffaele Pernice, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, this Talk Series brings together renowned academics and scholars of Japanese architecture and urbanism with the intent to present an overview of representative examples of buildings and designers which prompted a radical phase of change in the construction of larger cities and new modern buildings and infrastructures in Japan from the Meiji Era to the contemporary period.

 
Please find more details about the talk series below here:

 
Free Talk Event Series: Cities And Urban Living In Japan 1868-2025

Program Outline: 
 
Date: Thursday, 9 February, 2023, 6:00pm- 7:30pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Sydney & FB live streaming
Speaker: Prof. Masaki Koiwa ( Dept. of Architecture at Waseda University)
 
 
Date: Thursday, 16 February, 2023, 6:00pm- 7:30pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Sydney & FB live streaming
Speaker:  Prof. Ken Oshima (University of Washington)
 
 
Date: Thursday, 23 February, 2023, 6:00pm- 7:30pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Sydney & FB live streaming 
Speaker: Dr. Raffaele Pernice (Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture at UNSW)
 
Date: Thursday, 2 March, 2023, 6:00pm- 7:30pm
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Sydney & FB live streaming 
Speaker: Dr. Julian Worrall (University of Tasmania)

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