AIA Kansas City: The American Institute of Architects

Ethics in Planning

Stacey Swearingen White is Associate Professor in the KU Department of Urban Planning. Her research interests are in the areas of environmental planning and policy, including stormwater management, sustainable communities, public participation, open space protection, and planning pedagogy. She also serves as the Director of Academic Programs for the KU Center for Sustainability.

The spring 2010 Oscar Ekdahl Memorial Lecture of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design will be given by two distinguished Japanese architects.

Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu will speak at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, 2010, in Forum Hall of the K-State Student Union. The lecture is open to the public without charge.

In 1986, a group of seven people, including Kazuhiro Kojima and Yasuyuki Ito, enrolled in the Tokyo University Graduate School doctorial course and jointly established a fi rm named Coelacanth. Achievements included winning fi rst prize in the international competition for the Osaka International Peace Center in
1990, the Utase Elementary School in 1995, and receiving the Design Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan in 1997. The offi ce was renamed C+A in 1998. Then in 2005, the fi rm reorganized into CAt (C+A Tokyo) and CAn (C+A Nagoya). From offi ces in both Tokyo and Nagoya, the fi rms design architecture locally and internationally, based around four partners: Kazuhiro Kojima and Kazuko Akamatsu (CAt), and Yasuyuki
Ito and Susumu Uno (CAn).

According to Librairie d’Architecture, “Kazuhiro Kojima, in partnership with Kazuko Akamatsu of CAt, works with rather unusual strategies as the driving force of his projects. Kojima doesn’t use form as a starting point; instead, his buildings are the outcome of situating space itself at the centre of discourse, plus concepts linked to the fl uidity and instability of the phenomena that go to form a building. The fl uidity and instability of life and of space itself are concepts rooted in the traditional Japanese culture Kojima reinterprets and manipulates in a contemporary way. The outside of one of his buildings is, therefore, the secondary expression of what has given rise to the inside.”

Kazuhiro Kojima was born in Osaka and graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University. He completed the master course of architecture at the University of Tokyo where he was also a research associate. In addition to being a CAt partner, he is also a professor at the Tokyo
University of Science and a visiting professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology.

The EEBN invites you to Sustainable Roofs from a Green Manufacturer

8:00 AM – Registration and Networking
(bagels, juice and coffee available)
8:30 – 10:00 AM – Tour of DERBIGUM
10:00 – 10:30 – Networking

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This event is free for EEBN members, $20 for non-members
and $10 for students who register by March 24.