Peter Eisenman Will Lecture @ Dept.of Architecture Univ.of Tokyo on March.12.

during uia tokyo,i interviewed wang shu as the 3rd part of my "just you & me" interview series that aims to particularly asking the questions and arguing about issues and confusions in contemporary china's built environment. we had a very long talk(more than one hour) on chinese cultural...

Currently, Prof.Obuchi has organized a series of lectures as part of Harvard Graduate School of Design Tokyo Program seminar titled Evolutionary Productions, which explores the history and technological developments of Japanese craft traditions and manufacturing systems. Japan offers a unique...

already midnight at University of Tokyo now,1st year new students @ Obuchi lab are still working on their "generative mass production" project for the 1st stage design review on next monday. as a 2nd year student,i found this year's design research topic for workshop one(to design a material...

Today,we are going to have a lot of activities and lectures for our digital fab lab's opening. I will post more information soon!!! Joined by Jesse Reiser from Princeton University, Tom Verebes from Hong Kong University and Michael Hansmeyer from ETH Zurich, we packed the lecture hall, and had a...

We(Digital Fab Lab/Obuchi Lab @ Tokyo University) are participating this year’s Tokyo Designers Week and exhibiting our Minimal Surface Pavilion. This is our 6th version since we started constructing last September, and it gets better each time we reconstruct at different locations. Tokyo...

We will hold a launch event for our Digital Fabrication Lab on November 12. This event was originally planned for March 15, 2011, but it was cancelled due to the 3/11 Tohoku Earthquake. We will be joined by Jesse Reiser from Princeton University who is Director of Graduate Program at School of...

Here are the latest pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *the minimal surface pavilion project was developed this summer@digital fabrication lab/obuchi lab of the university of tokyo,directed by yusuke obuchi/kengo kuma/jun sato.

As an attempt to create a structure as light as possible while generating a complex spatial geometry, a shrink-wrap membrane was used as a tension element connecting two independent rings together. The concept of Minimal Surface Pavilion was conceived as an urban furniture providing a place to...

today,tens of thousands of people in tokyo gathered at meji park right behind Kenzo Tange's olympic stadium,for an all-time anti-nuclear parade. i got information of this event from an italian architect marco corbella working at tokyo...thanks marco... core promoters of the big parade are...

hi all long time no see,,,,,,,,,,,,,i'm alive,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on may this year,i went to new york for half a month with my lab for a research trip&studio review with princeton(reiser studio)/colombia(nanako studio). after that till july,developments for studio project.mine is a speculative...

on 3`11,in the obuchi lab studio of tokyo university,i was preparing the midterm review documents with team members and other students for 14th of the same month,when we were listening to the music while drawing and writing,also talking with eachother.what a normal and relaxing atmosphere.at the...

we are organising a launch party for our new digital fabrication lab at our department. although the facility is yet to be completed, we are hoping to celebrate this occasion with internationally distinguish architects, engineers and educators and to create a modest symposium/roundtable...

on 31st. jan, we ve had the final review that was joined by Yusuke Obuchiobuchi lab_univ.of tokyo, Makoto Sei Watanabe Makoto Sei Watanabe architect, Martina Schaefer(AA London), Andrew Li(Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Keisuke Toyodanoiz architect,daisuke hirosearchicomplex of the tokyo...

*note:this entry is not about the global warming!!! during tokyo university's 15-day holiday,i experienced the warmest winter i ve ever had(it's true~my previous university's city harbin is pretty cold,which temperature in winter is normally around -30 centi degree )...it's not only because of the...

"Theorized and then performed by pioneering musicians like Steve Reich in the 1960s or Brian Eno in the 1970s, minimalist or ambient music provides an important example or case study in the birth of today’s highly immersive, adaptive, environments. Works by these musicians and others...

i didn't exactly know what the date it is,i mean,some day in obuchi lab's studio,trudy and i have talked about peter,about his works also,his design thinking...u know,trudy is his student while she was master at ucl many years ago...and later,suddenly,an email told me that sir peter will come to...

all about my obuchi lab's life @ dept.architecture_univ. of tokyo good...the tokyo station project started in an extraordinary way because before its intro we have had more than 5 days' break after last project's final review.i suppose that is a good signal which indicated us professor realized...