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Tune in to a live discussion on the CyberCity sponsored by DNP
at 5pm, 11 Nov 96 (PST) (9am, 12 Nov 96 JST).
Leading architects and commentators of the Real and the Cyber will gather in the
United States and Japan at this time to discuss and debate issues and ramifications of the rapid
growth of the digital metropolis. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area or Tokyo Metropolitan
Area, you are invited to join us at the actual broadcast sites and participate in the discussion.
The broadcast will be viewable on a large screen behind the panelists.
Richard Bender Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley An architect, educator, and campus planner, Richard Bender advises leading corporations and schools around the globe on issues of planning and design. As an educator he has taught at UC Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, and Cooper Union, and serves on the Boards of Mills College and the ARK Academy. A campus planner, he has worked on the long range physical and 'cyber' master plans for numerous institutions from Berkeley to Santa Cruz. As a designer and urban planner he works with organizations from Disney to Shimizu and the Getty Museum, on several World Fairs and Expo committees, international design competitions such as the recent Saitama stadium in Japan, and projects from urban plans for small Italian villages to new satellite communities on the outskirts of Paris. Alonzo C. Addison Design Technology Group, UC Berkeley and Vice President, Cyra Technologies With degrees in engineering and architecture, Mr. Addison serves as a technology advisor and 'information architect' to numerous organizations interested in the convergence of 3D visualization, design, and networks. He serves as Vice President of Cyra Technologies, a 3D laser imaging firm, in addition to heading his own internet strategic consultancy. He has lectured at conferences Siggraph to Networked Reality and at universities from Berkeley to Waseda in Tokyo and Milan to Dresden. Nezar AlSayyad Professor of Architecture and City Planning, UC Berkeley Professor Nezar AlSayyad is an architect, historian, and urban planner. For several years he has been leading an NEA-funded project to analyze and model with the computer the growth and evolution of several ancient urban metropoli. He serves as Director for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and as Executive Director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). The author of several books on Middle Eastern urbanism, he also produced the documentary 'Akiwan: At Home with Mother Earth'. Kevin Cain Computer Educator, Theater Designer, and Director, Berkeley Contemporary Opera As a teacher of computer graphics and animation at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, Kevin Cain is regularly faced with issues of building cyber vs real worlds. For the past several years he has been spearheading a massive international effort by the Berkeley Contemporary Opera to produce a cyber opera of William Gibson's Neuromancer, repleat with 3D visual imagery and projected worlds, music, and virtual sets. JP SIDE Minoru Takeyama Architect and Professor, Musashino Art College, Tokyo Born March 15, 1934 in Sapporo, Japan Education: Bachelor Degree 1956, Master Degree, 1958, Waseda University,Tokyo and M.Arch., 1969, Harvard University, USA. Appointment: Designer at, Jose Luis Sert, Isamu Noguchi, Harrison & Abramovitz etc., USA 1960-1963; Architect at, Jorn Utzon, Arne Jacobsen, Henning Larsen etc. Denmark 1963-1965. Self-employed, 1965- present, Professor of Architecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, 1975- present. Major Architecture Work: includind Tokyo Port Terminal, Egyptian Embassy in Tokyo, Commercial Complex, 'Renaissance', Musashino Art University, Building No. 10, Aterier Indigo, Pepsi Canning Plant,Ichi Ban Kahn, Ni Ban Kahn, etc. Membershio: American Institute of Architects(Honorable Fellow), Japan Institute of Architects, Architectual Institute of Japan, Japan Semiology Association, Japanese Society for Science of Design. Awards and Honors: Academic; Plym Distinguished Professorship, University of Illinois, 1990, Fulbright Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley and MIT, 1975, Wheelwright Fellowship, Harvard University,1993, Fulbright Grand to Harvard University 1959-1960, etc. Professional; Honor Award of Waterfront Design, 1993, Tokyo Design Award, 1993, International Illumination Design Award, 1992 for 'Tokyo Port Terminal',Annual Design Award 1987 for 'Renaissance', Special Prize, First World Biennale of Architecture, Bulgaria, 1981, Honorable Mension, International Design Competion for Islamic Cultural Center, Madrid, 1980, etc. Publication: Tokyo Urban Language, 1984, Language in Architecture, 1984, Meaning of Streets, 1977, Street Semiology, 1975, Blue Nirvana, 1972 etc. |