広島児童図書館に関するオンラインフォーラム“Recontextualizing the Design of the Hiroshima Children’s Library 1953”を開催します。
西山雄大講師が清水建設技術研究所と進めてきた共同研究「広島児童図書館の設計経緯に関する資料調査」の成果報告会として、オンラインフォーラム“Recontextualizing the Design of the Hiroshima Children’s Library 1953”を開催します。
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- Forum: “Recontextualizing the Design of the Hiroshima Children’s Library 1953”
- Overview: Do you know there used to be a unique children’s library having shape of a morning glory in Hiroshima? The library, for which a world-famous architect Kenzo Tange is known as the designer, was built in 1953 as one of two newly established children’s libraries in the prefecture. In this small forum, we shed lights on multiple intersecting contexts of planners from which this unique design has been emerged. Abundant archival materials let us explore complex web of elements affected on the design and the plan of the library. From the case of the archival study on thelibraries, we would like to argue how we could utilize architectural archives as knowledge media.
- Date: Tokyo 17 March 2026 9:00-11:00 (JST)／Boston 16 March 2026 20:00-22:00 (EDT)
- Place: Online (Zoom Webinar)
- Fee: Free
Co-hosted by Institute of Technology, Shimizu Corporation; Mukogawa Women’s University
- Auspices: Hiroshima City Culture Foundation Children’s Library
- Support: Hiroshima Prefectural Library
- Acknowledgement: This forum is a part of the collaborative research project: “Archival Study on the Design Process of the Hiroshima Children’s Library” between Institute of Technology, Shimizu Corporation and Mukogawa Women’s University.
- Speaker:
Takashi Matsumoto (Senior Researcher, Shimizu Corporation)
Inés Zalduendo (Special Collections Curator, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
Yudai Nishiyama (Lecturer, Mukogawa Women’s University)
Akira Nemoto (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
- Contact: Takashi Matsumoto
Senior Researcher, Historic Buildings Group, Center for Urban Space Engineering, Institute of Technology, Shimizu Corporation
takashi.matsumoto@shimz.co.jp
