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SELECTED LECTURES

×         SELECTED LECTURES BY THOMAS DANIELL
 
×         2025/3/17  “Japanese Architecture Then and Now”
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway)
 
×         2025/3/11 “Sei’ichi Shirai / Heidelberg – Félix Guattari / Tokyo”
Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
 
×         2025/3/7 “Osamu Ishiyama’s Barrack Theory”
Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
 
×         2025/2/26 “MA”
KU Leuven (Ghent, Belgium)
 
×         2024/11/14 “Global/Local”
Universidad de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico)
 
×         2024/9/10–13 “Hiroshima, Fukushima, and the Temple of Atomic Catastrophes”
Presented at Architect-ing What? Rethinking the Foundations of Human Existence
14th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia (Kyoto, Japan)
 
×         2024/9/4 “Found Objects”
ENSASE (St. Etienne, France)
 
×         2024/6/13 “(Re)Generation”
o   Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Vienna, Austria)           
 
×         2024/5/17 “Metabolism Revived”
Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen, China)
 
×         2024/5/10 “Nature and Artifice in the Japanese Garden”
Arte Sella (Trentino, Italy)
 
×         2024/5/10 “From Metabolism to Fukushima”
Mantovarchitettura Festival (Mantua, Italy)
 
×         2024/5/2 “Space-Time in Japanese Architecture”
Museum of Asian Art (Torino, Italy)
 
×         2024/4/8 “Nature and Artifice in the Japanese Garden”
Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya, Japan)
 
×         2023/9/26 “The Temple of Atomic Catastrophes”
Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
 
×         2022/11/2 “Ground Zero”
Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
 
×         2022/9/7 “From Post-war to Post-tsunami”
Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqLCejeYHoM&themeRefresh=1
 
×         2022/5/19 “Objets trouvés: Enquêtes sur la ville japonaise”
arc en rêve centre d’architecture (Bordeaux, France)
https://youtu.be/T2yRkL5reI8?si=RuqW-e_nHr7xQHcJ
 
×         2022/4/8 “Influence of Prominent Women Architects in 20th and 21st Century Japanese Architecture”
Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture (Karachi, Pakistan)
https://fb.watch/wmrTVNZzyt/
 
×         2021/11/27 “What’s Next?”
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris (Paris, France)
 
×         2021/10/5 “The Evolution and Influence of Kyoto’s Urban Structure”
KU Leuven (Brussels, Belgium)
 
×         2021/8/29–9/2 “East Meets West: Japan and the IAUS”
Presented at Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities
The 16th International Docomomo Conference (Tokyo, Japan)

 
 

×         2021/2/9 “Manifest Density: Land Reclamation and Casino Culture in Macau”
Boston University (Boston, USA)
https://www.bu.edu/asian/2021/01/15/manifest-density-land-reclamation-and-casino-culture-in-macau-with-thomas-daniell-feb-9-2021/
 
×         2020/11/30 “The Temple of Atomic Catastrophes”
Columbia University (New York, USA)
 
×         2020/10/29 “Out of the Ordinary”
Architectural Association (London, UK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbZOYiyiIHg
 
×         2020/8/19 “Notes from a Small Island”
Melbourne School of Design (Melbourne, Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5jLnwptec
 
×         2019/12/7 “Toward the Second Dimension”
Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)
 
×         2019/8/29 “Avant-garde Encounters”
CCA c/o Tokyo, Canadian Embassy (Tokyo, Japan)
 
×         2019/9/19 “Super Flat / Super Cute”
University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus)
 
×         2019/9/17 “Enigma Variations”
American University of Sharjah (Sharjah, UAE)
 
×         2019/8/29 “Japan at the IAUS”
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal, Canada)
 
×         2019/8/6 “Text in the Post-Digital Era” (with Cynthia Davidson)
Pratt Institute (New York, USA)
 
×         2019/8/5 “Acute Architecture” (with David Ruy)
Pratt Institute (New York, USA)
 
×         2019/4/2 “An Anatomy of Influence”
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Val de Seine (Paris, France)
 
×         2019/3/14 “10 Biennales, or more?”
Design Society (Shenzhen, China)
 
×         2019/3/11 “An Anatomy of Influence”
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, China)
 
×         2019/2/4 “An Anatomy of Influence”
Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore)
 
×         2019/1/23 “An Anatomy of Influence”
New York Institute of Technology (New York, USA)
 
×         2018/11/30 “The House is a Work of Art”
Presented at Domestic Frontiers
Architectural Association (London, UK)
 
×         2018/11/28                        
“An Anatomy of Influence” (with Jeremy Till)
Architectural Association (London, UK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHEbtoml7EA
 
×         2018/3/3 “Unbuilt Macau”
Dom Pedro Theatre (Macau SAR, China)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jng0OO1NUlw
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

×         An Anatomy of Influence (London: AA Publications, 2018
×         Houses and Gardens of Kyoto, second revised edition (Tokyo: Tuttle, 2017).
×         Kansai 6 (Seoul: Equal Books, 2011).
×         Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama + Amorphe (Seoul: Equal Books, 2011).
×         Houses and Gardens of Kyoto (Tokyo: Tuttle, 2010).
×         After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).
×         FOBA: Buildings (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

×       “Ground Zero,” in The Zero Degree of Architectural Writing, eds. Wouter Van Acker and Lyna Bourouiba (Leipzig: Spector Books, forthcoming).
×         “Japanese Dragon (Ryū),” in The Architect and the Animal, ed. Kostas Tsiambaos (Boston, MA: The MIT Press, forthcoming).
×       “On the Genealogy of Morals,” in Communal Ecologies: Conversations with Young Japanese Architects, ed. Samuel Michaëlsson and Marc Goodwin (Stockholm: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, forthcoming).
×         “WoDeCo” and “Paper Log Houses,” in Flashpoints, ed. Robin Middleton (London: Thames and Hudson, forthcoming).
×         “Found Objects,” in MBL Architects (Brussels: Accattone, 2025), 123–138.
×         “Foreword,” in Géraldine Borio, Looking for the Voids: Learning from Asia’s Liminal Urban Spaces as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural Practice (Zurich: Park Books, 2023), 4–5.
×         “水面下に沈められた意図,” in Takashi Yamaguchi, Canon Quantumetric (Tokyo: Shogokaku Publishing, 2023), 6–7.
×         “Tropisms,” in Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama, Niwa: Nobiyaka na Kenchiku no Shikō [Garden: Thoughts on Lively Architecture] (Tokyo: A&F Press, 2020), 42–45.
×         “Expo ’70,” in Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture 1948–2000 (London: Phaidon, 2018), 128–137.
×         “Uncommon Ground,” in Macau and the Casino Complex, ed. Stefan Al (Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2018), 25–46.
×         “Urban Chimera,” in AAVS Shanghai Folio, ed. Tom Verebes (New York, NY: ORO Press, 2017), 27–29.
×         “CO2Works,” in This Is Not a House, ed. Dan Rubenstein (New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2015), 174–183.
×         “Acting Natural,” in Kengo Kuma, Small Architecture / Natural Architecture (London: AA Publications, 2015), 3–20.
×         “Artifice and Authenticity: Post-Colonial Urbanism in Macau,” in Asian Cities: Colonial to Global, ed. Gregory Bracken (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015), 69–94.
×         “Lost in Translation,” in Tokyo from Vancouver 3 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia School of Architecture, 2014), 156–163.
×         “Just Looking: The Origins of the Street Observation Society,” in Terunobu Fujimori Architect (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), 210–221.
×         “The Fugitive,” in Toyo Ito, Tarzans in the Media Forest (London: AA Publications, 2011), 3–18.
×         “Articles of Faith,” in Sanford Kwinter, Requiem for the City at the End of the Millennium (Barcelona: Actar, 2010), 11–14.
×         “Reflecting Modern Life,” in Housing is Back, eds. Peter Ebner et al. (Vienna: Springer Verlag, 2006), 150–153.
×         “Keeping the Faith,” in Kazunari Sakamoto: Houses, eds. Hannes Rössler et al (Munich: Detail / Birkhäuser, 2004), 56–59.

PERIODICALS

×         “Fantastic Voyage,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 61 (Summer 2024): 37–45.
×         “Ulterior Motives,” AA Files (June 2024): 60–64.
×         “The Positive Power of Architecture,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 59 (Fall 2023): 33–40, 130–31.
×         “The Nature of the Offence,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 58 (Summer 2023): 79–84.
×         “Containing Multitudes,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 58 (Summer 2023): 13–16.
×         “Tracked Changes: Beyond the Virtual Body + Afterword,” Volume, no. 62 (May 2023): 48–53.
×         “Half-Life,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 51 (Winter/Spring 2021): 28–36.
×         “Diferencia y repetición / Difference and Repetition,” AV Monografías 226: Sou Fujimoto 2000–2020 (August 2020): 4–11.
×         “Aman Kyoto,” Artichoke, no. 72 (August 2020): 102–113.
×         “Firminy Church,” Kenchiku Sekkei, vol. 8 (Spring 2020): 39–41.
×         “Resisting Arrest: The Evolution of UNStudio,” Architectural Design: Urban Futures, vol. 90, no. 3 (March 2020): 20–25.
×         “Finding a Voice,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 46 (August 2019): 51–59.
×         “Off Grid: A Conversation with Hiromi Fujii,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 43 (July 2018): 16–33.
×         “The Fugitive,” AA Files, no. X (June 2018), 78–81.
×         “Endless Flows,” Kyoto Journal, no. 90 (May 2018): 104–111.
×         “Shin Takamatsu in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” AA Files, no. 75 (November 2017): 98–118.
×         “L’architecture au Japon après le krach de 1989,” Tracés, no. 12 (30 June 2017): 10–14.
×         “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” AA Files, no. 72 (June 2016): 20–39.
×         “Bug Eyes and Blockhead,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 36 (March 2016): 34–47.
×         “Hiroshi Hara in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” AA Files, no. 71 (December 2015): 135–152.
×         “Difference and Repetition,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 35 (October 2015): 52–59.
×         “Containment,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 33 (Winter 2015): 11–16.
×         “Acting Natural,” AA Files, no. 69 (December 2014), 100–106.
×         “White Lotus Temple,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 53 (October–November 2014): 24–25.
×         “SAR / SEZ / PRD / PRC: Positioning Hong Kong and Macau,” Volume, no. 41 (October 2014): 130–133.
×         “Modernization and Its Discontents,” Volume, no. 41 (October 2014): 68–72.
×         “Chinese Whispers,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 32 (Fall 2014): 31–32.

×         “Glaciers, Sand Dunes and River Deltas,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 51 (August 2014): 127–139.
×         “Arata Isozaki in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” AA Files, no. 68 (July 2014):22–42.
×         “Born Under Solaris,” ICC Tokyo: Weekly Solaris (15 February, 2014): 2.
×         “The Limits of Materiality: On Junya Ishigami and Philippe Rahm,” Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, no. 14 (November 2013): 106–109.
×         “Shenzhen Stock Exchange: Thinking Inside the Box,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 44 (June–July 2013): 93–101.
×         “Resisting Arrest,” Archicreations: UNStudio 2006–2013, no 168–169 (May–June 2013): 29–31.
×         “‘Nothing Serious’,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 27 (Spring 2013): 21–30.
×         “Natural Comfort,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 42 (February–March 2013): 162–169.
×         “The Mothers of Invention,” Architectural Design: The Innovation Imperative (January 2013), 114–123.
×         “Familial Clouds,” Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, no. 13 (November 2012): 122–125.
×         “After the Aftershocks,” Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, no. 13 (November 2012): 100–102.
×         “Just Looking: The Origins of the Street Observation Society,” AA Files, no. 64 (June 2012): 41–50.
×         “Laboratorios habitados: La nueva arquitectura doméstica en Japón,” Architectura Viva, no. 142 (May 2012): 22–25.
×         “The Return of the Repressed,” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 24 (Winter–Spring 2012): 23–27.
×         “The Fugitive,” AA Files, no. 62 (May 2011): 78–81.
×         “Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama: What’s in a Name? (A True Story)” Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, no. 21 (Winter 2011): 9–22.
×         “But the Flesh is Weak,” Volume, no. 25 (October 2010): 151–155.
×         “Détournement: Atelier Bow-Wow’s Guide to the 13th Arrondissement of Paris,” Volume, (December 2009): 38–46.
×         “Garden House,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 22 (October–November 2009): 162–171.
×         “Back to the Future: The Edo Biosphere,” Volume, no. 18 (December 2008): 76–79.
×         “Beyond the Virtual Body,” Volume, no. 15 (June 2008): 60–64.
×         “Escaping the Clutches of Concrete,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 12 (February/March 2008): 176–183.
×         “The Letter of the Law,” Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, no. 8 (2007): 85–90.
×         “Legal Constraints on Architectural Form in Japan,” Memary Architecture & Construction Quarterly (Summer 2007): 20–22 (English), 118–21 (Farsi).
×         “Cycle of Dwelling,” Japan Architect, no. 65 (Spring 2007): 112–113.
×         “Rusting Fortress.” Oris IX, no. 47 (2007): 74–83.
×         “Pushing the Envelope,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 7 (April 2007): 166–173.
×         “What Steel Wants,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 6 (February 2007): 35.
×         “Living on the Edge,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 6 (February 2007): 96–100.
×         “Box of Tricks,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 5 (November 2006): 174–181.
×         “Rebirth of the Blob,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 5 (November 2006): 70–77.
×         “Living Dangerously,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 4 (September 2006): 112–121.
×         “Thin Skinned: Hitoshi Abe’s K-Museum,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 3 (June 2006): 90–101.
×         “Bulletproof Tradition,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 3 (June 2006): 30–31.
×         “Letter from Kyoto,” Mark: Another Architecture, no. 3 (June 2006): 198–207.
×         “Less Than Zero,” ERA21 (December 2005): 43–45.
×         “Immaculate Conception: The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa,” Archis (December 2004): 92–97.
×         “Functionalism and Morphogenesis,” 10+1, no. 35 (June 2004): 124–127.
×         “Deconstructing the Profession,” Archis (March 2004): 74–75.
×         “Exposure Time: Two Media Art Installations,” Archis (January 2004): 100–107.
×         “Balancing Act: MVRDV in Japan,” Archis (November 2003): 76–89.
×         “Waiting at Ground Zero,” AIJ Journal (September 2003): 30–31.
×         “House of the Artist,” Domus, no. 862 (September 2003): 90–99.
×         “Brand Recognition: Architects as ‘Housemakers’ in Japan,” AD: Home Front (July 2003): 82–89.
×         “The Glass Library,” Domus, no. 858 (April 2003): 94–105.
×         “Doors of Perception: Flow,” Archis (February 2003): 110–111.
×         “Strange Attractor: Yokohama International Port Terminal,” Archis (October 2002): 105–109.
×         “Building or Brand? Foreign Projects by Japanese Architects,” AIJ Journal (September 2002): 30–31.
×         “Two Houses in Japan,” Domus, no. 845 (February 2002): 72–85.
×         “Framing Nippon: Images of the Japanese Built Environment,” AIJ Journal (January 2002): 62–63.
×         “Manufacturing a Market,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, no. 338 (January–February 2002): 102–105.
×         “FOB Homes,” Arch+, no. 158 (September 2001): 100–103.
×         “Back to Nature,” Archis (July 2001): 33–34.
×         “Virtual Light and Heavy Metal: Building the Mediatheque,” Archis (May 2001): 117–124.
×         “Icoon van een nieuwe generatie publieke architectuur,” De Architect (March 2001): 38–45.
×         “The Dancing House,” Domus, no. 835 (March 2001): 136–145.
×         “Hakama,” De Architect (December 2000): 30–33.
×         “Eastern Aspect,” Cross Section (December 2000): 8–10.
×         “Kazuhiro Ishii: Meta-architecture,” Archis (November 2000): 58–63.
×         “Water Feature,” World Architecture, no. 90 (September 2000): 84–87.
×         “Wide Open Spaces,” World Architecture, no. 87 (June 2000): 78–80.
×         “Fitting In: Small Sites in Urban Japan,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, no. 328 (June 2000): 80–83. Republished as “FOBAと日本の都市,” 10+1, no. 22 (December 2000): 146–147.
×         “Pretty Vacant: The Photographs of Takashi Homma,” Archis (May 2000): 36–41. Republished as “すっきり空っぽ:ホンマタカシの写真,” 10+1, no. 23 (March 2001): 157–9.
×         “Paths of Least Resistance” (editorial), Archis (May 1999): 8.
×         “The Visceral and the Ephemeral: Abstraction in Contemporary Japanese Architecture,” Archis (March 1999): 8–24.
×         “Mirage City: Another Utopia,” Archis (February 1998): 55–60.
×         “Kisho Kurokawa in Malaysia,” Archis (June 1997): 62–67.
×         “Letter from Japan,” Archis (April 1997): 71–73.