| STUDIO G 2005 | |
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| Free school in HAKONEYAMA |
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This year, STUDIO G has one overall theme ﾒFREE SCHOOLﾓ. Free School is a class that is conducted in the outer space of usual inner class. We try to find meaning in reconstructing the relationship between TEACHERS and STUDENTS, and also the educational materials. The first trial was held in HAKONEYAMA near from the campus inviting instructers, REININ NAKATANI, and MORIKAWA KAICHIRO.
STUDIO G is some kind of design program. So that we need to DESIGN something. We seek what effect us to be in the specific SITE to realizing the DESIGN. | |
| e-mail : ishiyamalab@ishiyama.arch.waseda.ac.jp | |
Shanghai Life City
15 - 25 December 2003
at Tongji University, Shanghai
Nowadays, Shanghai as an economical city in China, has the market which is under contrast with the Japanese deflation. It is also free from the bureaucracy of Beijing. It is what we call a Global place. At the same time, Shanghai is also an energetic city where has a mixture of the history and the present time. Now, we are going to experience in Shanghai, we believe that we could find the excitement while studying the architecture and the urbanization.
We will be staying at the dormitory of Tongji University. We will also occupy the classroom of Tongji University and the Studio at the center of Shanghai city. Through the experience in Shanghai, we will be searching for what the image of an Architectural city should be. The lectures will be held in the morning time, and followed with the design course and the investigation in the afternoon time.
Lecturers :
Kazuhiko Namba, S-L Zheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences PHD), G. Chang (Dean of Architecture Department, Tongji University)
C-Y Lee, J.H. Gleiter, Osamu Ishiyama,
Studio G is headed by the collaboration between Professor Osamu Ishiyama, Japan, Professor C.Y. Lee, Taiwan and Guest professor J. Gleiter, Germany.
This collaboration is just one more step in the attempt to achieve a full-scale international education at the department of architecture at Waseda University.
This department with its long history of student exchanges to Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, Rene Descartes University Paris, France and the Escola Tecnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, Spain, is hearty welcoming the well-known architect from R.O.C. and the architectural theorist from Germany who will join our laboratory to create a new studio that is focused to relate between diverse nations and our own Japanese society.
C.Y. Lee can be considered as being one of the most famous architects in China right now, well-known for his design for the Taipeh Financial Building and for his urban planning proposal for the city of Xi'an.
J. Gleiter based on studies of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - he has a highly critical point of view on modernism.
So please, pay close attention to our international members coming from China, Taiwan, Germany and Japan!
