International Symposium "LIVING Modernity: Past, Present, Future"

Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches in the areas of trans-national architectural history, theory and design.
He has also been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and UCLA. He received a PhD in architectural history and theory from Columbia University, M. Arch. degree from U.C. Berkeley and A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College. Dr. Oshima is a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and served as President from 2016-18. He curated the exhibition The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World (2023) and is author of Kiyonori Kikutake Between Land and Sea (2015), Global Ends—Towards the Beginning (2012), International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku (2009), and Arata Isozaki (2009). His articles on the international context of architecture and urbanism in Japan have been published in journals including Architectural Review, Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Kenchiku Bunka, Japan Architect, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, and the AA Files.

Patrick Moser (1969) is a Swiss writer, translator, art historian, and museologist. He is the founder and curator of the Museum Villa "Le Lac" Le Corbusier in Corseaux / Switzerland.
In 2001, he obtained a Ph.D. in museology for his thesis From the dwelling house to the exhibition space – example of the Villa "Le Lac" Le Corbusier. In 2010, Moser created, according to Le Corbusier's wish in one of his last letters (1965), a museum at the Villa "Le Lac", the house the architect built for his parents in 1923.
In the meantime, Moser initiated a series of bibliophile publications on architecture and specialized works around the Modern Movement. Although the titles are in French, the publications are multi-lingual (French, German, English, Japanese).

Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1957. Currently works in Design Planning Department, Design Division, and in charge of Corporate Sustainability Department in Corporate Planning Office, Takenaka Corporation. Representative Director of Chochikukyo Club. Councilor of Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum.
After graduating from Hokkaido University with a degree in architectural engineering, Matsukuma joined Takenaka Corporation. In addition to his architectural design work, he has been involved in the preservation and utilization of modern architecture and numerous architectural and art exhibitions.
His major publications include Chochikukyo: Wooden Modernism of Koji Fujii (Heibonsha Corona Books), Chochikukyo: An ideal dwelling in Japan (Heibonsha), Chochikukyo: Hakken to Saisei no 22 nen (22 Years of Discovery and Rebirth) (Pia Kansai), and Chochikukyo: Jissokuzushu (Measurements and Drawings) (Shokokokusha Publishing).
He received the Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan Specific Contributions Division and the ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) Japan Prize in 2018 for his series of activities at Chochikukyo Residence. The former “James House,” which he was involved in the conservation, restoration, and revitalization of, received the Architectural Institute of Japan Selected Architectural Designs and the BELCA (Building and Equipment Long-life Cycle Association) Award.

Dr. Atsuko Tanaka is an architectural historian and a part-time lecturer at Kanagawa University. She Graduated from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a BA and MA in Architecture, and received MArch from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on intercultural exchange in architecture between Japan and the US, Japonisme in architecture and women in architectural design. She was a specially-appointed professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology (2017-21), part-time lecturer at Musashi University, Tokyo Denki University, Nippon Institute of Technology (2008-2017). Her Publications include Tsuchiura Kameki to Shiroi Ie (2014), Amerika no Meisaku Jutaku ni Kurasu (2009), Big Little Nobu: Wright no Deshi, Josei Kenchikuka Tsuchiura Nobuko (co-author, 2001).

Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz graduated from the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP) in 1978. He is principal of Brasil Arquitetura Studio, together with Francisco Fanucci. The practice has realised prize-winning projects both in Brazil and abroad. He is also co-founder of the joinery Marcenaria Barauna, designing and manufacturing wooden furniture since 1986.
From 1977 to 1992, he worked with Lina Bo Bardi, participating in all her projects during this period, most notably the SESC Pompéia Leisure Center. He led the Bardi Institute from 1992 to 2001, a time during which Bo Bardi’s works became known worldwide through a large number of publications and exhibitions.
From 2003 to 2004 he coordinated the Monumenta Program of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture for the Restoration of Historic Cities. In 2006, he was visiting professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. He published several books, such as Arquitetura Rural na Serra da Mantiqueira (1992); Arquitetura Conversável (2010); the monograph Brasil Arquitetura Studio (vol. I - 2005 / vol. II - 2020); and Marcenaria Barauna: furniture as architecture (2017).

Timo has a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology. He has worked at the Alvar Aalto Foundation since 2004 in various positions, both with collections and exhibitions. In addition to working as the chief curator of the collections team his main responsibility has been the architectural drawing collection, developing the research services and coordinating international loans and exhibitions. He curates in-house exhibitions at the Alvar Aalto Museum and has worked on several co-produced international exhibitions.

After working at Maki and Associates (2000-2006), Kiwa co-founded KMKa Architects in 2006. She holds Ph.D. in Engineering.
Her notable architectural projects include, Red House (2008), Big and Small Rooves in Yagumo (2015), and 8-degree House (2019).
Her Master’s thesis as a member of the Project on the City, led by Rem Koolhaas, is included in The Harvard Design Guide to Shopping (Taschen, 2002). She has contributed a chapter on Maki and Dutch Team 10 to The Urbanism of Metabolism (Routledge, 2022). She has co-authored a textbook for architectural drawing technique, Yasashiku Manabu Kenchiku Seizu (Ex-knowledge, 2011), featuring Fisher House.

Assistant Professor of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2019-24), in charge of architectural design and design theory. After graduating from the Department of Architecture, Tokyo Institute of Technology, he studied at ETH Zurich (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Switzerland, as an exchange student (2009-10). He received his PhD in Contemporary Residential Architecture on “Constituent Facts” in House Typology (Tokyo Institute of Technology). He co-authored publications including The Story of Kahn’s Aura: Louis I. Kahn, Lecture Series (2024), and Commonalities Production of Behaviors (2014), and has contributed to numerous articles on the creation of contemporary architecture.