TAB Event - “Le Corbusier Today: 21st Century Significance and the Call for World Heritage Listing” Symposium

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At Mori Art Museum
Media: Art Talk

There is a movement at the moment to have a selection of Le Corbusier's buildings included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Section 1 of the Symposium, which features the Director of the National Museum of Western Art (the only Le Corbusier building in Japan), will focus on this movement. Section 2 of the Symposium will include some of Japan's most exciting architects, examining how Le Corbusier's work continues to serve as a source of inspiration

Section 1: “The International Call for World Heritage Listing”
Speakers: M.J.P. Duport (Director, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris), Masaki Aoyagi (Director, The National Museum of Western Art), Kiran Joshi (Professor, Chandigarh College of Architecture), Yoshiyuki Yamana (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science), and others.

Section 2: “Le Corbusier in the 21st Century”
Speakers: Toyo Ito (Architect), Jun Aoki (Architect), Manabu Chiba (Architect) and Fumio Nanjo (Director, Mori Art Museum)

Venue: Roppongi Academyhills 49 Tower Hall Capacity: 500
Organizers: Mori Art Museum, Academyhills, The National Museum of Western Art

Booking:
This program is organized in collaboration with Academyhills. Please apply using the application form on the Academyhills web site here.

*Japanese-English and Japanese sign language simultaneous interpretation

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