FRENCH-JAPANESE SYMPOSIUM

"Architecture as Cultural Interface"

Sponsored by :
OSAKA University (COE Program "Interface Humanities". Section: "Media, Design, Interculture) and
Architecture School of Paris LA VILLETTE (Laboratory "Architecture, Milieu, Paysage", AMP)

Date: 2. December (Tu.) and 3. December (Wed.)
Place: Ecole d'Architecture de Paris La Villette (144, avenue de Flandres, Paris 75019)

Official Language: English (auxiliary languages : French and Japanese)

Chairman : Ryosuke OHASHI - Co-Chairman : Philippe NYS

• 1. day (2. December)
  
  
  • 9 : 00 - 12: 00
    
    Section Chairman: Axel SOWA (Editor of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui)
    
    Opening Speech: CHAIRMAN
    
    Congratulatory address : Jean-Pierre Le Dantec (Director of EAPV)
    
    Presentation :
    Augustin BERQUE (EHESS, Prof.): "The city (civitas): from architecture to landscape"
    
    Ryosuke OHASHI (Osaka Univ., Prof.) : "Culture : from architecture to nature?"
    
    Lunch Time
    
    
  • 14 : 00 - 18 : 00
    Masatsugu NISHIDA (KIT, Prof.) : "On the notion of 'Architecture' in Japan. A reflection through the practice of reconstruction."
    
    Murielle HLADIK (EAPL, Lecturer) : "Figure(s) of ruins between East and West"
    
    Tsuneyuki KAMIKURA, (Osaka Univ., Prof.) : "The architecture in the Japanese Apres-Guerre literature"
    
    
    
• 2. day (3. December)
  
  
  • 9:30 - 12:00
    Section Chairman : Yann NUSSAUME (EAPL, asst. prof.)
    
    Presentation:
    Haruhiko FUJITA (Osaka Univ., Prof.): "Viollet-le-Duc and Japanese architecture"
    
    Philippe NYS : (Paris VIII Univ./College de Philosophy, Prof): "The overcoming of modernity in architecture"
    
    Lunch Time
    
    
  • 14:00 - 18:00
    Bill HILLIER (UCL Bartlett, Prof.): "Spatial culture in cities : an analytic approach"
    
    Masao FURUYAMA (KIT, Prof.): "Contemporary architecture in the modern city"
    
    Philippe BOUDON (EAPL, Prof.): "About socio-cultural scale(s)"
    
    Closing Speech: CO-CHAIRMAN