Live Webinar
Talking Sustainability Ancient Wisdom, Modern PracticePart of the Living Traditions series

Wed., Jan. 25, 2023
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET (4:00 pm—5:00pm PT)

Living Traditions webinar series is co-presented with the Japan Institute of Portland Japanese Garden
and supported by the Government of Japan

Japan Society programs are made possible by leadership support from Booth Ferris Foundation and the New York State Council
on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support for cultural
programs is provided by an anonymous donor and the Sandy Heck Lecture Fund.

Speaker Profiles

Azby Brown is a native of New Orleans, and has
lived in Japan since 1985. A widely published author and authority on Japanese architecture, design, and environment, his groundbreaking writingson traditional Japanese carpentry, compact housing, and traditional sustainable practices of Japanare recognized as having brought these fields tothe awareness of Western designers and the general public. In addition to The Genius of Japanese
Carpentry (1989/2014), he has written Small Spaces (1993), The Japanese Dream House (2001),
The Very Small Home (2005), and Just Enough:Lessons in living green from traditional Japan(2009/2022). He retired in 2017 from the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where he founded theFuture Design Institute, and is currently on thesculpture faculty of Musashino Art University in Tokyo and the architecture faculty at Japan Women’sUniversity.
Ken Tadashi Oshima is a Professor of Architecture
at the University of Washington, Seattle, where heteaches 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, MArchfrom U.C. Berkeley and A.B. degree, magna cum
laude, from Harvard College. Dr. Oshima was President of the Society of Architectural Historians from2016-18 and author of Kiyonori Kikutake Between
Land and Sea (2015), Global Ends—Towards theBeginning (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.

@japansociety@japansociety@japansociety

Speaker ProfilesŽeljka Carol Kekez is an award-winning businessstrategist, urban designer, professor, author, andcurator. A founding partner of the internationallyacclaimed design studio PLACE, Carol has helped
lead the organization on initiatives that pursue abetter world by synergizing nature, art, philanthropy, and placemaking. Carol regularly hosts Japanese delegations and pop-up gatherings at PLACE
and has led a Portland-team in interactive publicprivate partnerships titled ‘We Build Green Cities’
to reinvigorate Japan’s declining rural communities. Carol’s notable engagement with Japan’s creatives also includes the World River Story, a social
sculpture project to improve the state of the world
rivers. Though her responsibilities and interests
take her all around the world, Carol is also actively
involved with professional and community service
endeavors in Portland, including the Architecture
Foundation of Oregon (afo), the Halprin LandscapeConservancy, the Oregon China Council’s Climate
Summitt, jurying professional and academic designcompetitions, and mentoring future generations ofdesigners at Portland State University’s School ofArchitecture.

Videos of Hiroshi Sambuichi’s recent works
The Naoshima Plan “JU”
https://benesse-artsite.jp/en/art/the-naoshima-plan-ju.html
The fourth chamber for Cisternerne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWY65CPJZ74

Stay up to date on Japan Society’s events
by signing up for our eNewsletter!