Learning from Wright (II):
Kameki
and Nobu Tsuchiura in America and Japan
The final seminar in the 2006 Wrightian Architectural
Archives Japan Seminar Series, aimed at promoting greater
cultural awareness of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and
ongoing legacy in Japan, is scheduled for Dec. 16, 2006
in Tokyo.
The featured speakers are Nobuko Ogawa, an architect and
professor emeritus of Japan Women’s University, and
Atusko Tanaka, an architect and architectural historian.
The women are coauthors of the groundbreaking study of
Nobu Tsuchiura, Big Little Nobu. They will discuss the
architecture and lives of Kameki and Nobu Tsuchiura, who
worked with Frank Lloyd Wright from 1922 to 1925 in Los
Angeles and Wisconsin, before returning to Japan and starting
their own practice.
Prof. Ogawa, one of Japan’s first women graduates
in architecture after WWII, worked for Kameki Tsuchiura
Architects and Associates from 1953 – 1956. Tanaka,
a student of leading Wright scholar Kathryn Smith, conducted
wide-ranging interviews with the Tsuchiuras in the late
1980s and has written extensively on their careers and
work.
| DATE: |
Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, 2:30 – 4:30 pm (Doors
open at 2 pm) |
| SPEAKERS: |
Prof. Nobuko Ogawa and Atsuko Tanaka |
| ENTRY FEES: |
WAAJ members: ¥1,000 Student members: ¥500
General
public: ¥1,500; students: ¥1,000 |
| LOCATION: |
Japan Women’s University Centenary Hall Rm.
506
(Bus Shiro 61 from Mejiro Station or 15-min. walk;
10-min. walk from Gokokuji Station) |
Please be aware that the seminar is in Japanese, but there
will be ample visuals. You may reserve a seat by contacting
WAAJ by phone, fax or email at the numbers below.
See
the PDF
for further details or visit www17.plala.or.jp/waaj/index.html
WRIGHTIAN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES JAPAN
1-4-9-201 Kita Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0074
Tel/fax: 03-5875-5110
email: waaj@apost.plala.or.jp |
ABOUT WAAJ
The nonprofit WAAJ was founded in 2005, marking the centenary
of Wright’s first visit to Japan in 1905, to ensure
that his legacy of innovative, organic design would live
on. The group plans ongoing events, seminars and community
outreach programs, all aimed at helping to prevent a further
erosion of Japan’s architectural heritage, as well
as making contributions to a new era of sustainable design.
WAAJ’s goal is to endow, manage and grow an archives
of Wright-related materials, as well as to create a living
museum where Wright fans and scholars from around the globe
can come together to make new discoveries.
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