Onouye Studio | Mitsuhiro Kanada | 2020
Description
The 2020 offering of the Barry Onouye Endowed Studio, highlighting the intersection of architecture and structures. With the visiting endowed Chair, Mitsuhiro Kanada, this studio will explore the culture and use of a material common to both American and Japanese contexts: cedar.
Cedar has powerful significance as part of a natural landscape, as a cultural material, as a part of communal life, and carries a long tradition of craft on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. As such, cedar can become a language of a cross-cultural conversation linking different places across time, and contributing to our broader understanding of architecture, structure, culture, technique and material processes.
While our original intention was to design and built a structural-scale pavilion, the global pandemic required a different final product. The work in this studio still brought these larger themes in to the design, fabrication, treatment and connection of cedar elements into large scale structures.
Chair Bio
Born in Tokyo in 1970, Mitsuhiro Kanada has studied architectural design and structural engineering at University of California at Berkeley. After graduating from UC Berkeley with Master of Science, he joined ARUP, a global engineering consultancy based in 37 countries with more than 90 offices. Based in Tokyo and London, he has been involved in ground breaking projects such as Maison Hermes by Renzo Piano and Taichung Metropolitan Opera House by Toyo Ito. Since 2007 he is an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he researches the possibilities of modern interpretation of traditional Japanese materials and technology. In 2017, together with Keisuke Toyoda, he has established Gluon, focused on the digital transformation of architecture and urban planning practice.
Chair Lecture
UW Instructor
Tyler Sprague, University of Washington
Students
Tova Beck
Shreya Bhaskare
Isabella Boyd
Avery Dehner
Natalie Farness
Skyler Johnson
Jesper Karlsson
Bobbie Koch
Lawson Legore
Shane Mcnie
Anna Marie Murphy
Hyeeun Oh
Connor Stein
Yimeng Wang
