This year’s Takumi Award goes to Kazuyo Sejima, one of the top architects in Japan, who won numerous prizes including The Pritzker Architecture Prize known as so-called Nobel Prize in architectural field. She has recently designed The Sumida Hokusai Museum which will open next month and attracts attention from abroad.In this commemorative talk, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, world-renowned CG artist will approach how she has designed “Architecture opened to community,” “Architecture linked to Town,” etc.
Tsumugi Award 2016 will go to Makoto Shinkai, animation movie director, who won many international awards with his excellent animations. His creation including “5 Centimeters Per Second” and his latest work “your name.” has received acclaim from around the world. The Tsumugi Award ceremony will start from around 3:30 pm after the Takumi Award Talk.
Takumi Award Ceremony and Talk: Kazuyo Sejima, Architect
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Professor of the University of Tokyo/Artist
Tsumugi Award Ceremony: Makoto Shinkai, Animation Director
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October 29, Saturday
2:15PM-3:50PM (Doors Open 2:05PM) - PLACE
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Takumi Award Winner
Kazuyo Sejima
Architect
Born in Ibaraki Japan, Kazuyo Sejima received a degree in architecture at the Japan Women's University in 1981. Upon completion of her studies she began working in the office of architect Toyo Ito. In 1987 she opened her own studio in Tokyo and then in 1995, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she founded SANAA. Her own works include House in Plum Grove and Inujima Art House project. SANAA’s main works include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the Rolex Learning Center (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), the Louvre Lens, and Grace Farms. In 2010 Kazuyo Sejima was appointed director of the Venice Biennale. In the same year, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA were the recipients of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Tsumugi Award Winner
Makoto Shinkai
Animation Director
Makoto Shinkai was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1973. In 2002 he debuted his self-produced short-film Voices of a Distant Star, which won many awards starting with the Tokyo International Anime Fair 21. In 2004 he created his first full-length movieThe Place Promised in Our Early Days to great acclaim, which went on to win Best Animated Film at the 59th Mainichi Film Concours. In 2007 he released 5 Centimeters Per Second which won Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, as well as the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize at Italy’s Future Film Festival. In 2011Children Who Chase Lost Voices was released in theaters nationwide and presented internationally as a work unlike the world had ever seen before, winning the “Golden Monkey King” Award at the 8th China International Cartoon and Animation Festival. In 2012 he received a Letter of Appreciation from the Cabinet Secretariat’s National Policy Unit as one of the “Global Messengers of Japan”. In 2013 he released his biggest hit so far, The Garden of Words, which won Best Anime Feature Film in Germany’s Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film. Also that year he was awarded the Shinmai Select Prize. Makoto Shinkai continues to receive acclaim domestically and internationally as one of the next generation of anime film directors.
Moderator
Yoichiro Kawaguchi,
CG Artist and Professor at the University of Tokyo
1952: Born in Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
1976: Graduated from Kyushu Institute of Design (current Kyushu University)
1978: Graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Education (current University of Tsukuba)
1998: Promoted to Professor at Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering of the University of Tokyo (after prior teaching at University of Tsukuba as Assistant Professor)
2000 – Current: Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo
He has been active as pioneer and world-wide authority of CG art utilizing his unique “GROWTH Model” and is still evolving as proven by such newest creations of his as 8K whole-sky planetarium image, large monuments, futurization of Japanese traditional art, construction of robotic objects, etc.
He is also the first chairperson of the competition jury committee of Japan Media Arts Festival and the representative artist of Japan at 1995 Venice Biennale.
He received “Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art” in 2010 from ACM SIGGRAPH, the Ministry of Education Award in the Art in 2013 from the Japanese Government and also given Medal with Purple Ribbon in the name of the Emperor in 2013.