Here are a series of images of the most recent g30 pavilion experiments,working in progress.

Ken Oshima from University of Washington and John Bohn from SCI-ARC joined our midterm review on June.6.    View full entry

G30 students have joined people gathering on the sidewalk in Tokyo last Monday to watch the annular solar eclipse, and sent us an image taken by her iphone. View full entry

As part of our studio project, we have traveled to the US last week, and visited New York, Boston and Princeton. The highlight of our trip was to join the Super Review, which was held at Princeton University, and to present our studio projects. The Super Review was organized as a final... View full entry

A study trip to NYC. View full entry

Lecture by Klaas de Rycke on May 7, 13:00 – 14:30. Klaas is a managing director of Bollinger + Grohmann, Paris, and has worked together with SANAA and RDAI as a structural engineer. His lecture title is Geometry Topology Materiality; the structural parameters in a collaborative design... View full entry

Coinciding with Jonathan Solomon’s latest publication, Cities Without Ground, a book that maps the complex three-dimensional connectivity of Hong Kong's pedestrian passageways, this lecture explores general conditions of the aformal through specific exploration of three buildings in Hong... View full entry

Prof. Obuchi’s design team, Cast on Cast, from Design Research Lab at Architectural Association in London has received Holcim Innovation 3rd prize 2012. They received Holcim Awards “Next Generation” 1st prize in 2011 European category, and this time for its international... View full entry

G30 Studio work is now on display at the entrance hall of our building at Department of Architecture. Focus of our work so far is to establish the parallel design system between analogue and digital productions for differential mass-fabrications.  View full entry

Together with Matthias Kohler, Michael Budig and their students from ETH Zurich, we held a joint review and discussed the latest research on robotic fabrications in architectural experimentation. View full entry

We hosted a midterm review at University of Tokyo joined by 9 schools from US, Europe and Asia. Participating schools: University of Tokyo Princeton University École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne University of Hong Kong Columbia University California College of the Arts... View full entry

Tokyo Architectural Boat Tour We went to a boat trip to see a face of Tokyo which can only be seen from rivers. The trip was organized by Prof. Jinnai from Hosei University and also joined by Ken Oshima of Washington University and Prof. Mark Mulligan of Harvard GSD. We have seen many places in... View full entry

We visited the world’s largest Storm Water Discharge Tunnel which prevents flooding disasters. A giant tunnel connects many small rivers with Edo River, Tokyo's major river, helping to reduce a potential overflow into residential areas during major storms.  The tunnel was HUGE! It is... View full entry

We visited the world’s largest glass manufacturer, Asahi Glass, located in Ibaraki Prefecture just north of Tokyo.  The company has 4 large-scale factories in Japan, and the one we visited produces glass sheets mainly used for architectural applications, i.e., windows, doors, skylights... View full entry

Azby Brown from Kanazawa Institute of Technology joined us and spoke his latest book ‘Just Enough’. The main focus of the book is about the ecological network developed during the  17th and 18th centuries in Tokyo... View full entry

We visited Blest Co., a company invented a machine which turns plastic waste into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and other refined oil. We had a great talk by Akinori Ito, the president of Blest, who started up his company 9 years ago. His vision is to transform the public perception of trash not as... View full entry

Prof. Jun Sato from University of Tokyo spoke to G30 and Harvard GSD Tokyo Program students about design culture of structural engineering in Japan. He works with young Japanese architects like So Fujimoto and Jun Ishigami, and explores to integrate Japanese tradition and latest technological... View full entry

G30 students and students from Harvard GSD Tokyo Program are joined by Morinosuke Kawaguchi, a technology consultant, who discussed the future of technology and how Japanese custom and subculture could help the direction of technological innovation.  ... View full entry

Together with Toyo Ito and Ken Oshima of University of Washington, Prof. Obuchi started to teach Harvard students for their GSD Tokyo Program 2012. In the coming months, G30 students will be joining lecture series and site visits organized for Prof. Obuchi’s seminar course, Evolutionary... View full entry

G30 Students and Teaching assistant Toshi went to Tsukiji Fish Market, the world’s largest fish market, this morning and bought all kinds of fresh fish for our Christmas Party. After busy making components by evolutionary development processes, we will now get our hands sticky and make our... View full entry

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

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... View full entry

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... View full entry

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... View full entry

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... View full entry

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... View full entry

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... View full entry

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. View full entry

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... View full entry

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... View full entry