IN-EAST News
26.05.2015 - 00:00
May 26, 2015: Guest Lecture Prof. Carola Hein
Border Crossings in Planning History: Foreign ideas and their implementation in Japanese cities since the mid-19th century
We are pleased to announce that Professor Carola Hein is going to give a guest lecture on
"Border Crossings in Planning History: Foreign ideas and their implementation in Japanese cities since the mid-19th century"
at the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies.
Date: May 26, 2015
Time: 13:00 to 14:30
Venue: SG 183
Participants are invited to a coffee or tea and a cake after the seminar to continue discussion.
Online Registration: To register for the guest lecture please sign in here until May 22th:
http://doodle.com/v2ibrsy85ak35kka
Abstract
Border Crossings in Planning History: Foreign ideas and their implementation in Japanese cities since the mid-19th century
Engineers, architects and planners from outside Japan, notably Europe and America, have carried foreign practices to Japan since the opening of the country in the mid-century. These ideas were partly implemented in Japan, they led to adaptations and transformations and have been integrated into original Japanese ways of designing the built environment. Some of these imports have been translated into urban practices in Japanese colonial empire where they have taken on yet new directions. Many of these adaptations remain largely unknown outside Japan and some interpretations of Japan’s urban environment are the result of lacking knowledge of its specific roots. This presentation aims to raise awareness of the importance of import and export of architectural and planning ideas and the need to carefully study these translations.
Carola Hein, Professor and Head, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Delft, trained in Hamburg (Diplom?Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and earned her doctorate at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg in 1995. She has published and lectured widely on topics in contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning – notably in Europe and Japan – and has authored several articles and books on capital city issues in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Berlin, and Tokyo. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, focusing on the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning. Among other major grants, in 2004, she held a grant by the Brussels-Capital Region Government to investigate the urban location and architectural expression of the European capital function. In 2005-06 she was working with a grant from the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy for research on ‘Regional integration and land policies affecting the future development of Tallinn, Warsaw, and Budapest’. In 2007 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on ‘The Global Architecture of Oil’.
Carola Hein’s publications include The Capital of Europe. Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union (Praeger, 2004); Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (with Pierre Laconte) (Routledge, 2011); Brussels: Perspectives on a European Capital (Publication of the Foundation for the Urban Environment, 2007); Bruxelles l’Européene: Capitale de qui? Ville de qui?/ European Brussels. Whose Capital? Whose City? (with Philippe Pelletier) (Cahiers de la Cambre-Architecture no.5, La Lettre Volée, 2006); Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan(with Jeffry Diefendorf and Yorifusa Ishida) (Routledge, 2006); Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945(Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). She has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and magazines.