Cultural Properties in Everyday Life: Workshop Tour on Local Sculpture and Architecture
The ordinary scenery of daily life takes on a completely different profile when one rediscovers cultural assets which you are unaware. Although Minato Ward is home to a variety of valuable outdoor sculptures and architecture, their existence is often forgotten in the course of daily life, and at the same time, the face of the city fades away.
In this tour-style workshop, participants will appreciate the cultural assets scattered throughout the city of Minato Ward by viewing the works with sculpture and architecture specialists, and explore the true nature and charm of an area rich in cultural assets.
Date
January 20th 2023: 10:30-12:30, 13:30-15:30
January 30th: 10:30-12:00, 13:00-15:00
Venue
Keio University Mita Campus
Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park
Meiji Gakuin University Shirogane Campus
etc.
Audience
Everyone welcome
Cost
Free participation (The admission fee of 160 yen to the Teien Museum's Garden will be charged for the architectural tour)
Enquiries and bookings
Keio University Art Center
+81-3-5427-1621
pj.ca.oiek.c-tra@yranuc
Date
January 20th 2023: 10:30-12:30, 13:30-15:30
January 30th: 10:30-12:00, 13:00-15:00
Venue
Keio University Mita Campus
Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park
Meiji Gakuin University Shirogane Campus
etc.
Audience
Everyone welcome
Cost
Free participation (The admission fee of 160 yen to the Teien Museum's Garden will be charged for the architectural tour)
Booking
Please register below.
Application Form
Application deadline: January 15th, 2023 15:00
Capacity｜20 people each
If there are too many applications, a drawing will be held and only the winners will be notified.
Lecturer/Performer
Sculpture Tour | Hirotake Kurokawa
Architecture Tour | Taro Igarashi
Hirotake Kurokawa (Sculptor/ Professor at the Musashino Art University Department of Sculpture)
As an expert on Bronze Sculpture, he is also involved in conservation for Outdoor Sculpture.
Taro Igarashi (Professor at Tohoku University Graduate School)
Born in 1967. Architectural historian and critic. Professor at Tohoku University Graduate School. 1992 M.E. from the University of Tokyo. D. in Engineering.
Artistic director of Aichi Triennale 2013 and commissioner of the Japanese Pavilion at the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture. He has supervised exhibitions such as "Impossible Architecture," "Window Exhibition: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows," and "Re-Discovering Decoration: Architecture in Nihonbashi.
He received the 64th Art Encouragement Prize, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Newcomer Award, and the 2018 Architectural Institute of Japan Education Award (Educational Contribution).
He is the author of "Architecture in Tokyo" (Misuzu Shobo), "Architecture after the Collapse of Modernism: Turn and Thought after 1968" (Seidosha), and many other books.
Timetable
Architecture Tour（January 20th, 2023）
10:30~12:30｜Keio University Mita Campus
13:30~15:30｜Around Meijigakuin University
Sculpture Tour（January 30th, 2023）
10:30~12:00｜Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park
13:00~15:00｜Keio University Mita Campus
*You will be required to travel to the meeting place in the afternoon on your own.
Enquiries and bookings
Keio University Art Center
+81-3-5427-1621
pj.ca.oiek.c-tra@yranuc
Organiser(s)
Organiser: Keio University Art Center
Supported by: the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the fiscal 2022
Subjects of the tours (tentative)
Sculpture Tour
In Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park: Ujihiro Okuma "Prince Taruhito Arisugawa" and others;
In Keio University Mita Campus: Fumio Asakura "Heiwa Kitaru", Isamu Noguchi "Mu" and others
Architectural Tour
Keio University Mita Campus, Meiji Gakuin University, Minato City Local History Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, etc.
*Times and destinations are subject to change due to COVID-19 infection or other reasons.