Exhibit:
Struggling Cities: Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s
Date:
January 9th-31st, 2012
Mon-Fri 8:00am-6:30pm
Place:
Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology
3360 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60616
Admission:
Free
Hosting Organizations:
Illinois Institute of Technology
The Japan Foundation
Consulate General of Japan at Chicago
Thursday, January 12th, 2012 6:00pm
From January 9th to 31st, the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will host "Struggling Cities: from Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s," a travelling exhibit from the Japan Foundation. Taking as its point of departure the various experimental ideas on the city that flourished in Japan in the 1960s and using a combination of diverse media — from architectural scale models to photographs and slides, along with animations and other audio-visuals — this exhibition examines various circumstances of Japanese and other cities up to the present day, and identifies in particular the distinctive aspects of those circumstances as they are manifested in present-day Tokyo.
On Thursday, January 12, at 6:00 PM, there will be a public lecture in conjunction with the exhibit by a renowned architect, Professor Kenneth Frampton from Columbia University. Moreover, the exhibit is being held in IIT's Crown Hall, one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's crowning achievements, and a defining building for the midcentury's Modernist movement.
