Lecture: Digital Construction and Design for a New Metabolism Culture in Japan / IBOIS
Event details
| Date | 29.09.2025 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 21:30 |
| Speaker | Yasushi Ikeda, architect, Professor at the University of Tokyo |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Digital Construction and Design for a New Metabolism Culture in Japan
Japan’s tradition of timber craftsmanship embodies a unique cultural practice of maintaining the life‑cycle of natural materials. This ethos can be read as a form of “metabolism” within architectural systems, a concept that also shaped modern Japanese architecture.
Today, advances in computational design, digital fabrication, robotic construction, and data‑driven management open unprecedented opportunities to realize this vision.
The upcoming lecture will showcase a range of experimental projects that explore this new "metabolism" culture, shaped by the digital turn, through the integration of design and construction.
Biography
Yasushi Ikeda is an architect and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Department of Architecture. In parallel with his practice, he taught at Keio University from 1997 and was appointed professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in 2008. He has pursued extensive research in information technologies that co‑evolve the creation, construction, and experience of artificial environments. In 2022, Ikeda joined the University of Tokyo and founded the Architectural Informatics Society in Japan, a platform dedicated to exploring architecture as an evolving information medium.
Japan’s tradition of timber craftsmanship embodies a unique cultural practice of maintaining the life‑cycle of natural materials. This ethos can be read as a form of “metabolism” within architectural systems, a concept that also shaped modern Japanese architecture.
Today, advances in computational design, digital fabrication, robotic construction, and data‑driven management open unprecedented opportunities to realize this vision.
The upcoming lecture will showcase a range of experimental projects that explore this new "metabolism" culture, shaped by the digital turn, through the integration of design and construction.
Biography
Yasushi Ikeda is an architect and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Engineering, Department of Architecture. In parallel with his practice, he taught at Keio University from 1997 and was appointed professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in 2008. He has pursued extensive research in information technologies that co‑evolve the creation, construction, and experience of artificial environments. In 2022, Ikeda joined the University of Tokyo and founded the Architectural Informatics Society in Japan, a platform dedicated to exploring architecture as an evolving information medium.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Professor Yves Weinand, IBOIS, EPFL