Friday 2 October – Monday 18 April 2011
Victorian Architecture in Meiji Japan
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation 主催
This lecture by the eminent architectural historian, Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, explored the Victorian face of Meiji Japan through the work of Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a British architect invited by the Japanese government to teach at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1877. Conder went on to design over fifty buildings during his career in Japan and trained a new generation of Japanese architects, transplanting Victorian taste into the changing urban landscape of Meiji Japan. The restoration of such buildings provides a contemporary context in which to consider Victorian architecture in a foreign setting.
Britain’s foremost authority on the social and cultural history of the Victorian era, Lord Asa Briggs, chaired the lecture and contributed his thoughts on the style and meaning of Victorian architecture and its relevance to Japan.
コントリビューターについて
Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki
Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki is Professor of the School of Cultural & Creative Studies of Aoyama Gakuin University. He was formerly Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Tokyo and has also taught at Waseda University and Harvard University. He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Royal Medal of Honour (Purple Ribbon) for his services to the history of architecture. His many publications include The Birth of Modern Architecture in Japan .
Lord Asa Briggs
Lord Asa Briggs (chair) was Professor of Modern History at Leeds University (1955-1961); Professor of History and Vice Chancellor of Sussex University (1961-66); Provost of Worcester College, Oxford (1976-1991); and Chancellor of the Open University (1978-94). His major publications have included a 5-volume History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, A Social History of England, and a trilogy on the Victorian era: Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things. He is currently President of the British Social History Society and of the Victorian Society.