Discussion after asian cities presentations at IKI Mn’M Symposium 2011 Measuring the Non-Measurable, held 1-5 Nov.

Thomas Chung is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, CUHK. He read architecture at the University of Cambridge, and has practiced as a registered architect in the United Kingdom.His research interest involves understanding how architecture contributes to the urban order of the modern city with respect to the broader cultural ground in question. He is currently researching on the interplay of architecture with urban representation and cultural imagination in Hong Kong, and the...

Discussion after engineer's presentation of IKI MnM Symposium 2011 Measuring the Non-Measurable, held 1-5 Nov.

Wimonrart Issarathumnoon is a full-time lecturer in Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand. She also works as a committee of ICOMOS Thailand and does architectural practices in Sappaya Studio Co.,Ltd. Wimonrart gained her Ph.D. degree from Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2009 with the support from the Royal Thai Government Scholarship. Her research focuses on architectural and...

Professor at Department of System Design Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology of Keio Univ. Received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1975, 1977 and 1980 respectively. Since 1980 he has been working at Keio Univ. Being received prestigious awards including IEEJ paper award (1985), JSPE award (1996), IEEE fellow (2001), JSME fellow (2003), EPE-BEMC Council Award (2004) and IEEE Dr. - Ing Eugine Mittlemann Achievement Award, he concurrently serves as an...

Dutch architect Neville Mars has been active in China since 2003 as head of the Dynamic City Foundation, an international research platform investigating hyper-speed urbanization. Now Mars is the principal of MARS Architects in Shanghai specialized in sustainable projects on all scales, from product development to architecture and city planning. Mars follows a research-driven approach, based on the notion that urban growth is essentially organic. With this perspective radical new urban and...

Apiradee Kasemsook is an assistant professor at Silpakorn University. Nuttinee Karnchanaporn is a senior lecturer at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). Both are visiting lecturers at Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and many architectural institutions in Thailand and abroad. Api received her doctorate in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL, and specialises in spatial morphology, particularly Space...

Architect. Born in 1956 at Ibaragi. Graduated from Japan Women’s University with Master Degree in Architecture. Worked for Toyo Ito office for several years and established Kazyuo Sejima & Associates in 1987. In 1995, she established SANAA with Ryue NIshizawa. Main awards are The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, The ministry of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize, Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010. Main projects include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, The...

Opening discussion of IKI Mn’M Symposium 2011 Measuring the Non-Measurable, held 1-5 Nov.

Takahiro Yakoh is an Associate Professor of Information Technology, especially for Real-Time Processing, Networking, and Human Interface at Keio University, Yokohama. He received his doctor degree of engineering from the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University. He has taught at University of Tokyo, and Technical University of Vienna during the current position. His research papers are included in chapters of three books, Emulating the Mind...

Seiichiro Katsura received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2001, 2002 and 2004, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2005 to 2008, he was with Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Since 2008, he has been with Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. His research interests include...

Satoshi HONDA is a Profesor at Department of Applied Phisycs and Physico-Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University. He received doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1985. He was a Research Associate at Department of Mathematical Sciences and Instrumentation Physics, University of Tokyo from 1975 to 1986. From 1986 to 1990, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto...

Darko's research focuses at the nexus between environmental and cultural sustainability and situations in which architecture and urban design overlap. His investigations of the concepts of urbanity and sustainable development focus on culturally and environmentally diverse contexts which expose difference and offer encounter with the other. Darko’s research books include Green City (2005, Routledge/UNSW Press; with Low, Gleeson, Green); Urbophilia (2007 the University of Belgrade Public Art...

Darko Radović heads the Measuring the non-Measurable project. He is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University, Tokyo, co-director of International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism – IKI, and a Visiting Professor at the United Nations University, Tokyo. He is also a member of the Philips Center for Health and Well-being Livable Cities Think Tank. Darko has taught, researched and practised architecture and urbanism in Europe, Australia and Asia, and held senior...

Architect, born in 1956 at Ibaragi. Graduated from Japan Women’s University with Master Degree in Architecture. Worked for Toyo Ito office for several years and established Kazyuo Sejima & Associates in 1987. In 1995, she established SANAA with Ryue NIshizawa. Main awards are The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, The ministry of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize, Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010. Main projects include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, The...

Digest of IKI International Keio Institute for Architecture Urbanism Symposium 2011, Measuring the Non-Measurable, held 1-5 Nov 2011.