The Berlage Design Master Class led by Hideyuki Nakayama
November 5–16, 2018
Julianalaan 134
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology
2628 BL Delft
The Netherlands
The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design is pleased to announce that Hideyuki Nakayama will lead the upcoming design master class, entitled “Autumn Leaves,” from Monday, November 5 to Friday, November 16, 2018. It will explore how natural phenomena can be the starting point for architectural design.
Continuing Nakayama’s explorations into an “architecture of the mask” and design playfulness, participants will start with observations about the architectural potential of the natural world. They will experiment with dry autumn leaves, enhancing and transforming them with scale figures, white paper, transparent film, and other materials. Participants, working closely with Nakayama, will invent new spatial forms with a strong sense of scale and consideration for nature and architecture.
Hideyuki Nakayama is an award‐winning Japanese architect based in Tokyo. After graduating from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he worked for Toyo Ito & Associate Architects for seven years. In 2007, he established Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture. He won the first Rokka no Mori Tea House Competition in 2008, the 23rd Yoshioka Prize in 2007, and contributed last year to “Harbour Magnets,” an architecture festival in Aarhus, along with LIST and Matilde Cassani.
Master classes are a unique feature of the Berlage. Twice a year students and young professionals work with world-renowned architects, designers, and thinkers to analyze a chosen subject relevant to contemporary issues in the built environment, and are encouraged to experiment with alternative forms of representation and dissemination.
Founded in 1990 as the Berlage Institute, the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design educates architects in a collaborative, experimental setting characterized by independent study informed through exchange with leading and emerging designers and scholars. Since 2012, the Berlage is a part of the TU Delft. Students now benefit from its world-class facilities and cooperation with its academic staff and students.
Dates: Monday, November 5 to Friday, November 16, 2018
Place: The Berlage, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology
The master class is open to a limited number of participants. Interested applicants should submit a motivation statement, CV, and abbreviated portfolio by Monday, October 1 to info [at] theberlage.nl.
