Date and time Sunday, June 12 13:30-16:00

Venue Yayoi Auditorium, The University of Tokyo

Lecturer Shoya Uchida (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) and Terunobu Fujimori (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)

As a commemorative event for the exhibition "History of Modern Architecture in Materials" being held at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in Yushima, Tokyo, a lecture "History of Modern Architecture of Manufacturing" was held on June 12 (Sun). Was. Lecturers are Shoya Uchida and Terunobu Fujimori. Like the lecture held in Kobe in November last year, the two sides talked about techniques and craftsmen in modern architecture from their respective perspectives.

First, Mr. Fujimori's lecture. With the aim of taking up steel structures and reinforced concrete structures, the sprouting of pioneering technology is born where amateurs do it indiscriminately. Interesting examples were introduced, such as buildings made by concrete.

This is a photo of the demolition of the Marunouchi Building and introduces the reinforcements applied after the earthquake. The Maru Building was built with state-of-the-art construction technology in the United States, but was severely damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake due to insufficient measures against earthquakes. This is an example of how technology has been refined and developed through a series of trial and error.

Next, Mr. Uchida's lecture talked about post-war carpentry.

The first post-war reconstruction was wooden construction, and the carpenters who made formwork on site even after replacing reinforced concrete construction were active, and on the other hand, the academic society resolved to prohibit wooden construction for reasons such as urban fire countermeasures. The transition of the position of carpenters and wooden buildings after the war, including the background of the decision, was introduced.

Let's move on to the conversation after a break. Focusing on the story of a three-dimensional steel truss made by Mr. Uchida, I was able to hear valuable stories such as the fact that Buckminster Hula came to meet at that time.

Although it was a different development from the Kobe venue, I would like you to explain the contents that tend to be difficult in an easy-to-understand manner, and I think that everyone at the venue, which was almost full, enjoyed it.

In the exhibition "The History of Modern Architecture in Materials", in addition to the architectural techniques from the Meiji era to the pre-Showa war, which were also introduced at the Kobe and Nagoya venues, post-war architectural techniques such as the Osaka Expo Festival Square with three-dimensional truss are also introduced. Please take a look at the process of trial and error from the introduction of various new technologies and the spread and establishment of them at the exhibition hall.

Reference: Click here for the report of the lecture in Kobe.