Outline in English - Kenchikukei Radio

Kenchikukei Radio
Kenchikukei Radio (Architecture Radio) is the Japanese Internet radio station on the theme of architecture. It began in 2008, and has received attention rapidly as a new media platform on architecture. Now, almost everyday the new programme on Japanese architecture is broadcasted and can also be listened to on podcast.

The core members of Kenchikukei Radio are Japanese architecture critics and young upcoming Japanese architects; Taro Igarashi, Yasuhiro Minami, Shunsuke Kurakata, keisuke Kitagawa, Tatsu Matsuda and Maki Onishi.

The programmes include interview with prominent figures such as Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond, etc. In addition, we give high priority to present and discuss the various aspects of the Japanese architecture scene, such as the transmission of information from regional cities and the discussion with promising students who have potential to become influential designers, which has rarely been introduced by traditional architectural media.

Some English content has been broadcasted and there are also plans to broadcast in other languages in the near future. Kenchikukei Radio's message to everyone involved in the architecture movement is to look out and lend an ear to Japans new architectural media platform.

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You can add the podcast program to iTunes if you click this iTunes button.

You can also listen some English contents as below.

Chinese version here.

Cecil Balmond Interview1:
On Element - at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Length of time: 26'12"
File format: MP3
File size: 18.0MB
Speaker: Cecil Balmond
Interviewer: Tatsu Matsuda, Shinobu Nomura

Related Links
Element - Cecil Balmond: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Japanese)

Cecil Balmond Interview2:
Deep Structure - architecture and music

Length of time: 17'39"
File format: MP3
File size: 12.1MB
Speaker: Cecil Balmond
Interviewer: Tatsu Matsuda, Shinobu Nomura

Related Links
Element - Cecil Balmond: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Japanese)

Glenn Murcutt Interview:
On architecture

Length of time: 21'39"
File format: MP3
File size: 14.9MB
Speaker: Glenn Murcutt
Interviewer: Shin Murakami, Keisuke Kitagawa

Glenn Murcutt : My father gave me very good advice, shown very very good advice when I started as a young architect. He said to me, "not to entering the world of architecture in practice, you must remember the start of the way you would like to finish". And he also said, "for every compromise you make in your work, the result represent the quality of your next client..."

Interview:
On Mies van del Rohe Award by Diane Gray

Length of time: 32'55"
File format: MP3
File size: 22.6MB
Speaker: Diane Gray
Interviewer: Tatsu Matsuda

Diane Gray, the curator of the Mies van del Rohe Foundation explains on the Mies van del Rohe Award (European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture) and the exhibition in Tokyo which takes place at the Gallery 1 on the 1st floor in Tokyo Gus Shinjuku Park Tower from 21st of January to 11th of February 2009, where we can see many models and panels of the projects which got the prize, nominated to or selected for this prize. (Interviewed by Tatsu Matsuda at Shinjuku Park Tower, Tokyo on 19th of January 2009)

Note: "40 architecture under 40" mentioned in this interview should be corrected to "Europe 40 Under 40".

Related Links
European Union Prize 2009 (English)
http://www.miesarch.com/
Mies van del Rohe Foundation (Català / Español / English)
http://www.miesbcn.com/

Interview with an Architecture student from Norway

Length of time: 20'43"
File format: MP3
File size: 9.9MB
Speaker: Jostein Fardal
Interviewer: Mai Matsuoka

I had an interview with Jostein Fardal. He is an Architecture exchange student from Norway.He worked in the Sou Fujimoto Architecture office and Junya Ishigami's exhibition in this summer. What dose European architecture student think about Japanese Architecture? What is the difference between Japan and Europe? We can see Japan from foreign country in this radio. At the beginning the radio we talk in Japanese, and one minutes after we talk in English. (Mai Matsuoka)