ARCH LECTURE SERIES: JUN’YA ISHIGAMI
MONDAY, 11/16/15 6:30PM – 8:00PM

Jun’ya Ishigami has worked with Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of widely recognized firm SANAA before setting up his own Tokyo-based atelier, junya.ishigami+associates, in 2004. Since then, Ishigami has worked on a number of installations and designs that have been exhibited on an international platform such as the venice architecture biennale in 2008, where he created a garden installation in the Japanese pavilion space, and the same event in 2010, where he exhibited the ‘Chateau la Coste’ installation – a project that won him the golden lion award. Ishigami is Associate Professor at Tohoku University in Japan. In 2014 he was made the Kenzo Tange Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the US.
This lecture is presented with the Center for Japanese Studies.