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Symposium “Private Jokes, Public Places: Between Architecture
  and Theater”


Sunday, December 13, 2009  5:00&8211;8:00PM (doors 4:30PM)
The Galleria Borghese exhibition and Collection Gallery close at 5:00PM.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto  1F lecture hall  Free admission


Playwright and former architecture student at Columbia University, Mr. Oren Safdie—son of the famous Canadian architect Moshe Safdie—will introduce a screening of his film Private Jokes, Public Places.  This work sharply and comically delineates the social, economic, political, cultural, aesthetic, technical, and institutional conditions surrounding contemporary architecture through the interchanges between a student and members of a design jury, some of whom are well-known architects.  This will be followed by a discussion with panelists and members of the audience on the contradictions of closed debates and open places in contemporary society.


Organizer
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering

Cooperation
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto


Guest
Oren Safdie (playwright)

Panelists
Kiyokazu Arai (Architect, Kyoto Seika University, former member of Morphosis)
Shuhei Endo (Architect, Kobe University)
Osamu Tsukihashi (Architect, Kobe University)
Satoshi Matsuoka (Architect, Kyoto University of Art, Graduate from Columbia University)
Toshiaki Kawai (Architect, Kyoto University, Graduate from The Architectural Association in London)
et al

Coordinators
Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama (Architect, Kyoto University)
Thomas Daniell (Architect, Kyoto Seika University)

Safdie will be speaking in English with Japanese translation.  All others will be speaking in Japanese.


Related link
NY1 News
“Private Jokes, Public Places” Examines The High Pressure World Of Architecture
http://ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/?SecID=1000&ArID=36226
URL valid as of Nov. 19, 2009 (Thu.)


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