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Speaker: Shigeru Aoki Professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University, President of Shigeru Aoki Architects & Associates
“The built heritage of Hiroshima- what can we keep in the 21st century?”
Date: 22 May 2008 Time: 17:30 to 19:00 Language: Japanese followed by a Q/A session in English and Japanese Location: Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry Building, 5-44 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
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Roundtable Topic The Ancient Roman architect, Marcus Pollio Vitruvius, is famous for asserting in his book De architectura that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas — that is, it must be strong or durable, useful, and beautiful. According to Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. In early modern architecture, Japan absorbed this philosophy and developed its own architectural culture. We can solve environmental issues and build urban history by reviewing this philosophy through refine architecture, keeping buildings quakeproof, functional and beautiful for long.
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Shigeru Aoki was born in
Oita prefecture and graduated from the Kyushu Technological
Architecture Department, University of Kinki. He is a professor of
Tokyo Metropolitan University and also president of Shigeru Aoki
Architects & Associates. For proposing “Refine Architecture (Construction)”which
is a technique of refurbishing old building, he received numerous
awards such as the Good Design Award