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AR-506: Sustainable Japanese architecture and landscape

Summary

This course focuses on the circulation of the imaginary between cultures. It shows how major Western architects, landscape designers, painters and sculptors have been inserting sustainable architectural and landscape Japanese devices and notions into their designs since the 19th century.

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Instructor

Irène Elizabeth Vogel Chevroulet

EDUCATION Architect Diploma EAUG 1991 Uni Geneva Prof. Tita Carloni Practical work: Neuchâtel - London - Tokyo Takefumi Aida Associates Master of Arts in Advanced Art Historical & Related Studies 1995 Uni East Anglia, Norwich, England, Prof. Stefan Muthesius - young researcher scholarship FNSRS - Birth of my first child 1998 - Piano certificate: Mention Good 1999 Conservatoire de musique Lausanne Prof. Martine Jaques - Birth of my second child 2001 - PhD in theory and history of architecture 2009 The Creation of a modern Japaness (1870-1940) or European Architects Vision towards Japan: Josiah Conder, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Bruno Taut, Charlotte Perriand Federal Polytechnical School Lausanne, Prof. Jacques Lucan - scholarship Marie Heim Vögtlin FNSRS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER - LUMEN Natural daylighting Building Technical Institute EPFL, 1992-94 - European cities history: Architecture Institute Geneva, Prof. Ricardo Mariani, 1996-98 CREATION & MANAGEMENT of the new BOOKSHOP at Photography Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Dir. Bill Ewing, 1998 ARCHITECT ADVISOR at the District territorial planning, Lausanne, 1999 - 2000 SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR EPFL 2000 - 2014 1) Territorial modelisation and architecture materiology Urban, territorial and architectural lab, Prof. Patrick Berger, 2000-2002 2) Territorial theory & urban environnement and mobility Dynamic territorial lab, Prof. Martin Schuler, 2002-2004 3) The human representation in architectural design at digital era Construction & conservation lab, Prof. Luca Ortelli, 2010 4) Bernard Huet and Japan 1964 Research done at Prof. Christian Gilot's chair, 2011 5) Direction's assistance for the Minor Center for Area and Cultural Studies CACSCollege of Humanities CDH 2012 - 2014 6) Archiving teaching material 1992-2012 / Writings synthesis / - Collaboration to Animal? Archizoom Exhibition and Book / texts Prof. Patrick Berger Urban Territorial Architectural Lab 2011 - 2014 HOST RESEARCHER - ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE ENAC EPFL 2015 - 2021Bernard Huet au Japon Architectures et jardins Zen (2015 - 2017) Conference SAH Pasadena LABook PPURPikionis and Japan (2018 - 2020)Conference SAH SydneyArticle JoLAPikionis - NoguchiIn progress 2021Reiko HayamaIn progress 2021 Other publications and conferences are in the list below.LECTURER College of Humanities Contemporary Japan 2013-2021 EXPERT for Master thesis in various schools (Polytècnico Lisboa - HEPIA - HEIA) CONFERENCES for a broad publicLe jardin de Ryôan-jiHES Fribourg - Japan Impact - Cercle Suisse Japon 2018: Une maison japonaise voisine de TotoroJapan Impact 2019Du Japon à l’Acropole : l’art paysager de Dimitris Pikionis Japan Impact 2020

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/AR-506

Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Irène Elizabeth Vogel Chevroulet

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/AR-506

Ontological neighbourhood

Anthropology

Urbanism: Topics in urbanism

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