Oyaji Knights
12th July Mon, 18:30~open
19:00~ talk start Bonobo 2F
Moderator Toshiya Ueno
Speakers Helena Capkova, Christophe Thouny
(Language : English and Japanese)
20:30 or 21:00 Music starts in both 1F and 2F
DJs
Suda the God Hands (DJ Itako)
KAORU (Newきんぎん）
Azusa
Nick Cage (Trance Disc Hunter)
Toshiya the tribal (Tribal Media)
Sei (Bonobo)
Bar Maddie
Terrace Tiny Bird Coffee
Front Bar Bimidori
Entrance 1000JPY one drink
Politics of Architecture
Bedřich Feuerstein (1892-1936) was a Czech architect who searched for a perfect modern design form. He was cosmopolitan and considered himself a socialist. Feuerstein’s search for a design-perfect dignified living for everyone regardless the social status led him to France and later to Japan, where he lived in 1926-1930. He studied Japanese architecture extensively and identified an ordinary Japanese house as a model for international modern living. In 1931, Feuerstein travelled to the USSR hoping to find the ideal socialist architecture. Her returned disappointed. The ideal for him remained a simple Japanese house ...
Over the past decades, social architecture in the modernist sense has been gradually replaced with corporate architecture featuring alienating public spaces and high-density housing projects. Like other big cities, Tokyo has accommodated the global phenomenon and implemented “defensive architecture” en route to the Olympics. These elements have started filling the city in the past ten years. Large public art projects and public spaces filled with uncomfortable furniture are now a common feature. The distinction in terms of use becomes visible, “normal” users can enjoy the quirky spots, while for the less socially adapt, such as the homeless, they make daily survival more challenging.