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SUMMARY:Cooking Up Dinner Speeches: Ise Gropius  in Japan / ARCHIZOOM
DTSTART:20251028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T045731Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION: Irina Davidovici\, Almut Grunewald\, Léa-Catherine Szacka\
 n17:00 — Guided tour of the exhibition by Léa-Catherine Szacka\n18:00 
 — Book launch Cooking Up Dinner Speeches: Ise Gropius in Japan\, edit
 ed by Almut Grunewald\, Zurich: gta Verlag\, 2025. Discussion with Almut G
 runewald and Irina Davidovici moderated by Léa-Catherine Szacka\n\nIn May
  1954\, Ise Gropius (1897–1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan 
 together with the famous architect Walter Gropius. Their tightly timed tou
 r\, organized by the International House of Japan and financed by the Rock
 efeller Foundation\, brought both of them into exchange with architects\, 
 artisans\, artists\, journalists\, and university lecturers. In addition t
 o promoting and writing speeches for her husband\, Ise Gropius proved to b
 e a gifted chronicler.\n\nIn detailed reports – her only known cohesive 
 texts from the postwar period – she vividly describes the country and it
 s people. She comments on lectures\, discussions about reconstruction\, ev
 ening parties\, or the Bauhaus exhibition in Tokyo with as much humour and
  understanding as she does on the role of Japanese women\, Zen Buddhism\, 
 or the local cuisine.\n\nExtensively annotated by the editor and supplemen
 ted by contributions from Anne Hultzsch and Shuntaro Nozawa\, this volume 
 publishes Ise Gropius’s travelogues\, in facsimile\, for the first time.
 \n\nThis event take place on the occasion of the exhibition Crossed Histo
 ries\, Gae Aulenti\, Ada Louise Huxtable\, Phyllis Lambert\, on Architectu
 re and the City at Archizoom\, curated by Léa-Catherine Szacka.
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