The AIA Committee on Design held a joint conference "Crafting the Future" in Toyko and Japan, November 13-19 2011. This is a photomontage of their explorations. You can contribute photos by joining the Flickr group! #NWPR #CommitteeonDesign #japan
Transcripts from seminars as part of COD/NWPR AIA Japan Conference #Pirotta #Tohoku #Tsunami #Reconstruction #Kobayashi #CraftingtheFutureJapan
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Taisei Corporation, a top design build firm in Japan, showed a video of the activities of their R&D center #TaiseiCorporation #CraftingtheFutureJapan #Innovation #technology #ResearchandDevelopment #DesignBuild
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Short video of the attic space showing the tied timber connections of the gassho style roofs of Japanese folk houses. In the Wada house were this video was shot, silk worms were raised on the second floor to provide supplementary income. #Gassho #Shirakawago #CraftingtheFutureJapan ...
Short video clips of the first level and mezzanine level of the Umimirai Library in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture Japan from the Crafting the Future Conference. #Kanazawa #japan #CraftingtheFuture #COD
A brief video of the award winning design by Foreign Office Architects for the Osanbashi pier in Yokohama #TraditionofInnovation #CommitteeonDesign #Yokohama #CraftingtheFutureJapan
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Video of the Entry of the GC Prostho Research Center in Kusagai City. Kengo Kuma used approx 6000 hinoki (japanese cypress) sticks based on a concept from a children's toy. #GCProstho #TraditionofInnovation #CraftingtheFutureJapan #CommitteeonDesign #KengoKuma
#CraftingtheFutureJapan #KengoKuma #Tokyo #CommitteeonDesign
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Video of the Model of Tokyo that Mori company uses as a development/planning tool. With Michael Madigan and Toshio Yabe discussing how it came about. #CommitteeonDesign #Tokyo #CraftingtheFutureJapan #TraditionofInnovation #Mori
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This photomontage grants a preview of some of the architectural sights that await the attendees of part 2 of the Crafting the Future Joint Conference in Japan. Beginning in downtown Nagoya and continuing with the open air architectural museum of Meiji mura in Inuyama - the slideshow is just the...
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