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【Lecture 27.04.2023】 Japanese architects who Have shaken the world: Arata Isozaki and Shigeru Ban’s cultural social approach
Release time：2023-04-26
Riichi Miyake (三宅理一), Dr.Eng
Born in Tokyo in 1948. After graduating from the University of Tokyo (1972), he finished the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1979) with DPLG (diplôme par le gouvernement), then he obtained the doctor of Engineering at the University of Tokyo (1981). After working as a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Université de Liège, Keio University, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris, and Fuji Women’s University (vice-president), he is currently visiting professor at Tokyo University of Science and director of ARCHI-DEPOT Corporation.
He majors in history of architecture, heritage conservation and as well as urban planning, so that he has had many opportunities to give lectures in many institutions such as Moscow Architectural Institute, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Rice University in Houston and so on. He has been involved in many activities bridging Japan with France as vice-president of the Société franco-japonaise des techniques industrielles and with Finland as advisor for Finnish Institute.
He has been engaged in urban planning and management of Yokohama, Helsinki (Finland), Shenyang (China), Tabriz (Iran), Gondar (Ethiopia) as well as in the conservation works such as Probota Monastery (Romania), Shibata Army Barrack (新発田 Japan), and Gunda Gundo Monastery (Ethiopia), Hakodate Catholic Church (函館Japan). In this context he has been leading the “International Forum for Urban Growth and Heritage Conservation” gathering various institutions from many Asian and European countries since 2003. He is also engaged in the conservation and management of fortification represented by a series of castles.
His career as curator of architectural events has made him organize a number of exhibitions in international institutions such as Pompidou Centre in Paris, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura – Roma, and Aseman Artistic and Cultural Complex in Tehran, as well as ARCHI-DEPOT Museum in Tokyo.
As an active member of ICOMOS and the chairman of ICOFORT Japan (ICOMOS Japan), he has been engaged in the conservation and the nomination of the UNESCO World Heritage in certain countries such as China, Russia, Iran, France, and Ethiopia besides his home country. Currently he is deeply involved in the organization of MA (間) Exhibition Silk Road, based on the idea of Arata Isozaki (磯崎新), which bridges Japan, China, Central Asia and Iran so as to explore a new horizon of space concept.
