Professor, Design
Edgar A. Tafel Chair in Architecture
Education
M.A., Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles; 1981
M.Arch., Budapest Technical University, Hungary; 1972
B.Arch., Budapest Technical University, Hungary; 1968
Professional Registrations
Licensed Architect, Budapest, Hungary, 1968
Academic Experience
Professor, School of Architecture, UIUC; 1990-present
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, UIUC; 1985-90
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, UIUC; 1981-85
Member of Faculty, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, UIUC; 1984
Visiting Professor, Henry van de Velde Institute of Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium, 2004
Visiting Professor, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, Scotland; 2002
Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of Oulu, Finland; 1998
Endowed Chair, Research Center for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Tokyo; 1993
Professional Experience
Principal Architect, Design Institute for Public Buildings (KÖZTI), Budapest; 1968-77
Designer, Design System Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; 1978
Consultant, Maki and Associates (Architectural Design Office), Tokyo; 1994-95
Correspondent, A+U, Architecture and Urbanism, Tokyo; 1974-96
Publisher’s Reader, Van Nostrand and Reinhold Co., New York; 1996
Consultant, Nikken Sekkei Ltd. Associates (Architectural Design Office), Tokyo; 1997-2000
Publications
MATERIAL IMMATERIAL: The New Work of Kengo Kuma. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
BEYOND THE BUBBLE: The New Japanese Architecture. London: Phaidon Press, 2008.
Kengo Kuma - Selected Works. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
Hiroshi Hara - The Floating World of His Architecture. London: Academy Editions, 2001
Nikken Sekkei 1900-2000: Building Future Japan. New York: Rizzoli International, 2000
JAPAN - At the Cutting Edge (editor). Special issue of New Architecture (no 3), London, 1999
Fumihiko Maki - Buildings and Projects (co-author). New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
World Cities: TOKYO. London: Academy Editions, 1997
TOGO MURANO: Master Architect of Japan. New York: Rizzoli, 1996
The Japan Guide. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995
THE NEW JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE. New York: Rizzoli, 1990
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE: Its Development and Challenge. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985
MAI JAPÁN ÉPITÉSZET (Japanese Architecture of Today). Budapest: Müszaki, 1979
Monographs
JAPAN - At the Cutting Edge (editor). Special issue of New Architecture (no 3), London, 1999.
MINORU TAKEYAMA
(Architectural Monograph No.42). London: Academy Editions, 1995
Japanese Architecture II,
AD Profile 99.
London: Academy Editions, 1992
Contemporary Hungarian Architecture
(special issue of A+U Architecture and Urbanism)
Tokyo: 1990
Japanese Architecture.
AD Profile 73.
London: Academy Editions, 1988.
Chapters to Books (selected)
“TOKYO – The Informational World City,” Introduction to Ulf Meyer.
Tokyo. Berlin, Germany:
2010; (in German) (forthcoming)
“Architecture as a Process of Reversed Construction—Ryoji Suzuki’s Work
in Light of His “Absolute Scene Tokyo 1987” in
Experience in Material 49:
Ryoji Suzuki Complete Works 1973-2007. Tokyo: INAX Publications,
2007; p.208 (Japanese); p.222 (English).
“Surface Above All? American Influence on Japanese Urban Space” in Heide
Fehrenbach and Uta Poiger (eds.).
Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations:
American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. New York:
Berghahn Books, 2000; pp.112-151.
“Crystal Garden - Perrault’s Project for the Kansai National Library” in
WITH Dominique Perrault.
Barcelona: Actar; and Stuttgart: Birkhäuser, 1999, pp.242-253.
“Design in the Land of ‘Creative Chaos’--The Emergence of New Modernism
in Japanese Architecture” in Helen Castle (ed.).
Modernism and Modernization in
Architecture. London: Academy Editions, 1999, pp.104-125.
“An Architecture of the Unknown and Unknowable,” Principal text in the
Monograph Takasaki Masaharu:
An Architecture of Cosmology. New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 1998, pp.9-14.
“From Ritualistic Objects to Science Fiction Constructs--The Enigma of
Shin Takamatsu” in Paolo Polledri (ed.).
Shin Takamatsu. San
Francisco: Museum of Modern Art; and New York: Rizzoli International,
1993, pp.35-56.
“Fumihiko
Maki - Making an Urban Architecture” in
Fumihiko Maki. Special
Japanese Issue of World
Architecture No.16, London: 1992, pp.32-37.
“The Place of No-Thingness: The Japanese House and the Oriental World
Views of the Japanese” in J-P. Bourdier and N. AlSayyad (eds.).
Dwellings, Settlements and
Tradition. Lanham, MD; New York, and London: University Press of
America, 1989, pp.183-211.
“The Japanese Order of Things:
Notes on Humanism and the Man-Environment Relationship in Japan”
in Form, Being, Absence:
Architecture and Philosophy. New York: Pratt Journal of
Architecture, No.2, 1988. Distributed by Rizzoli International, New
York, pp.148-162.
“Between Means and Meaning: Architecture and the Human Condition” in P.
Quinn and R. Benson (eds.). The
Spirit of Home. Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of ACSA
1986. Washington, DC: ACSA, 1986, pp.466-472
“A Phenomenological Approach to Architecture and Its Teaching in the
Studio” in D. Seamon and R. Mugerauer (eds.).Dwelling,
Place and Environment:
Essays Toward a Phenomenology of Person and World. The Hague:
Martinus Nijhoff, 1985, pp.183-197.
Republished by Columbia University Press, New York in 1989.
Research
Scholar of the history and theories of contemporary Japanese architecture and urbanism with a long list of publications, lectures, and other activities on his record; currently working on two books and several chapters to books, including: The “Bubble” and Beyond: Japanese Architecture in the Age of Economic and Social Upheavals. London: Phaidon Press (estimated publication: 05/2007); and Modern Architectures in History: JAPAN. London: Reaktion Books Ltd. (estimated publication: 11/2008)
Keynote Presentations and Lectures
Krannert Art Museum, UIUC; Urbana, IL; 2006
European Association of Japanese Studies International Conference, Vienna, Austria; 2005
Urban Land Institute of Japan (UILJ), Tokyo, Japan; 2004
Art and Architectural Council of Lower Austria, Krems, Austria; 2002
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; 2001
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; 2001
ACSA International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey; 2001
Institute of Malaysian Architects, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 2000
Architecture Center, Vienna, Austria; 1999
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; 1998
Union Foundation of Arts and Culture of Japan, Osaka, Japan; 1997
European Association for Japanese Studies International Conference, Budapest, Hungary; 1997
Washington University, St Louis, MO; 1997
Japan Institute of Architects, Tokyo, Japan; 1996
Brown University, Providence, RI; 1996
University of Sydney, Australia; 1993
University of Sydney, Australia; 1993
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 1993
Royal Academy of Arts, London; UK; 1992
Professional Memberships
Associate, Center for Advanced Study (CAS), UIUC; 2000-present
Member, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences; 1982-present
Member, Association for Asian Studies; 1983-present
Member, Phi-Kappa-Phi Honor Society; 1988-present
Member, European Association for Japanese Studies; 1997-present
Professional and University Service
Member, University Research Board, UIUC; 2004
(appointed)
Member, College Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, UIUC; 2000-2006
(appointed)
Member, College Promotion and Tenure Committee, UIUC; 2002-2005;
2009 (appointed) Chair, School International Programs and Relations, UIUC; 2002-present
(appointed)
Member, School Executive Committee, UIUC; 2002-2004; 2006-2008
(elected)
Other Activities
Architectural photography: many of his photos have appeared in
publications, books, and journals worldwide including:
ABADI (Tehran, Iran);
AD, Architectural Design
(London);
ARCH+ (Achen, Germany);
A+U, Architecture and Urbanism (Tokyo);
Architecture Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur);
Casabella (Milan,
Italy);
Diseno Interior (Madrid, Spain);
ERA21 (Prague);
JA, The Japan Architect
(Tokyo); JAE, Journal of
Architectural Education, Washington, DC;
Harvard Design Magazine (Cambridge, MA);
Journal of Architecture and Building Science (Kenchiku Zasshi),
(Tokyo);
Merian (Hamburg, Germany);
Mieux Vivre
(Antwerp, Belgium);
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
(Zürich, Switzerland);
New Architecture
(London);
Newsline (New York);
Opera Progetto (Bologna,
Italy);
Pratt Journal of
Architecture (New York);
Process Architecture
(Tokyo); Shinkenchiku
(Tokyo);
Space Design (Tokyo);
UIA Journal (London); Ville
Giardini (Milan, Italy);
World Architecture
(London);
World Architecture
(Beijing);
Zlaty Rez (Prague).
Awards and Honors
Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture; University of
Illinois, 2006
Japan Foundation, Fellowship; Tokyo, 2006
Hungarian Scientists and Scholars in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
Budapest, 2006
Humanities Release Time and Research Grant; University of Illinois, 2006
Laureate, Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Cultural Appreciation
Prize; Tokyo, 2005
U.S. Department of Education Curriculum Development Grant; 2003
Artist in Residence, Lower Austria Architectural Program (ORTE), Krems;
2002
Graham Foundation for the Fine and Applied Arts, Fellowship; Chicago,
2001
Associate in the Center for Advanced Study; University of Illinois, 2000
International Architectural Book Award; American Institute of Architects
(AIA) for his book TOGO
MURANO: Master
Architect of Japan (1996); 1997
Union Foundation of Arts and Culture of Japan, Fellowship; Osaka 1997
Nominator for the Kyoto Prize in the Arts and Philosophy; Kyoto 1997,
2001, 2005, 2009
Asian Cultural Council, Fellowship; New York 1995
Endowed Chair at University of Tokyo (RCAST); Tokyo 1993
Northeast Asia Council (NEAC), Research Grant; 1991
Social Science Research Council Fellowship; New York 1988
University Scholar and a three-year scholarship; University of Illinois
1986
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Research Grant; University of
Illinois 1986
Graham Foundation for the Fine and Applied Arts, Fellowship; Chicago
1985
Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombusho), Fellowship; Tokyo 1973-1975
Numerous research awards by the University of Illinois Research Board;
1984-2009
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