AIA Japan/ AIA Honolulu - Beautiful Seams: Utilizing Urban Rivers to Stitch Together a New Kind of Urbanism

When: Friday 27 October 2023 @ 21:00 (Eastern US Time)/ 15:00 (Honolulu time)/ Saturday 28 October @ 10:00 (Japan time)
Where: Online
CES Credits - Estimated 2 LU/ HSW for AIA Members

Speaker

Takako Tajima, AIA, NCARB, ASLA, Principal of Tajima Open Design Office and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California.

Description

AIA Japan and AIA Honolulu are excited to co-host this online talk!

Throughout history, human settlements relied on rivers as sources of water and food, means of circulation and transportation, and places of recreation. The history of urbanization, however, is also the history of degraded riparian systems. This lecture will examine the plight of rivers in the 20th and 21st centuries and the prospects for urbanism when we reorient our cities to the rivers from which they emerged.

Speaker Bio

Takako Tajima is principal of Tajima Open Design Office and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California. Like her background, Takako’s professional experience ranges in type, scale, and scope. Currently, she is contributing to a set of new objective design standards for the City of Palm Desert and designing the open space components of several housing projects being developed as part of California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Homekey initiative. At USC, Takako leads graduate level design studios and teaches in the Asian Architecture and Landscape Urbanism study abroad program for undergraduate architecture students.