Osamu Okamura: Social Exclusion and Inclusion from the Architect's Perspective

photo: Zuzana Vajdová

On Thursday, April 17 at 6:00 PM, Osamu Okamura will speak as part of the Time for Design series in classroom 115. The topic of the lecture will be Social Exclusion and Inclusion from the Architect's Perspective. Osamu Okamura remarked about himself: “I could do anything, if only I had enough time.” Besides architecture, he is involved in socio-ecological projects and site-specific art.

Osamu Okamura (*1973, Tokyo-Japan) is an architect, program director of the international festival and conference for livable cities reSITE, and editor-in-chief of the architectural magazine ERA21. He teaches Project Presentation at the Architectural Institute in Prague and the Visegrad Intercity Seminar in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He also lectures externally for Syracuse University Strasbourg and the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education at the University of Lower Silesia in Wrocław. He is an independent nominative for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for the Czech Republic, a member of the Expert Board of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, and a professional advisor to the Metropolitní ozvučná deska of the City Hall of Prague on urban development issues. He is an official certifier of the Register of Artistic Outputs (RUV) of Czech universities for the Architecture segment. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague - in the field of conceptual creation. He completed a study stay at the Ecole d’Architecture de Nantes in France. He lives and works in Prague.

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