Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Technology

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Free Online Course: Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Technology provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 7 weeks long, 1-2 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Technology is taught by Kengo Kuma and Yusuke Obuchi.

Overview
  • This is the second course of “Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture” series, with the focus on the second facet: technology.

    The technology portion will focus on works by architects who explored the use of technology—from techniques used for traditional crafts to computational processes—as a vehicle for their investigations into the conceptualization and production of architecture. Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Manabu Chiba, Kengo Kuma, Kazuhiko Namba, and Yusuke Obuchi will visit their buildings to discuss the ideas behind their respective works.

    Production Team

    Music by Jun Miyake

    Organized by (T_ADS) Kengo Kuma, Yusuke Obuchi, Toshihiko Kiuchi

    Filmed by Hiromoto Oka

    Translation Support by Thomas Daniell