Christopher Kaltenbach, co-coordinator
and lecturer in the
Architecture Design Studio 302,
will speak on the up-coming Japan Design Tour.
From March 8th to the 19th, 22 students will
investigate historical
and contemporary sites of Japan’s
built environment. Visiting Sendai, Tokyo, Yokohama and Kyoto,
a
number of important contemporary and historical sites of
architecture, urban and interior design will make
up the tour. Those include the 17th century Tokyo Shinto shrine,
Asakusa-jinja, the Tokyo Olympic stadiums by Kenzo Tange,
the boutique avenue of Tokyo’s Omotesando, which include
contemporary work by Kazuyo
Sejima, Tadao Ando, Jun Aoki,
Toyo Ito and Herzog and deMeuron.
In the 2005/06 academic year, these 300 level
students have engaged with the specific architectural typologies
that are the backdrop to current social, economic and political issues facing
the desert southwest of the United
States. It is in Japan, and more specifically Tokyo, that unique urban conditions
can be found demon-strating innovative responses, in built form, to Japan’s
own cultural issues. Experiencing first hand these
architectural responses is the
research needed to enable UNM’s architecture graduates to respond effectively
to New Mexico’s growing need for small affordable housing, public transportation
and areas of unique sidewalk culture.
The tour is being organized and conducted
by Christopher
Kaltenbach. |
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