AIDIA 2008, Asia Interia Design Conference

2008 October 21st-23th, Zhengzhou,China.

The AIDIA conference consists of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan member.
AIDIA invited Toshihiko Suzuki as Japanese representative guest speaker. (Reported by Atelier OPA)

Have you seen astonish photo like this? I’ve never seen it!
When we take same style photo as a graduation ceremony, it might only 60 people in Japan.
It was taken 3rd day noon, as a memorial photo. 80% is Chinese, 20% is Korean, and only 4 Japanese in it.

Zhengzhou is big city. It is located between Beijing and Shanghai. There are many tall buildings in town. International conference center. Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect designed whole city plan include this building. Suzuki was deeply moved because he graduated Kurokawa’s office 20 years ago and it had been short time when Kurokawa was died in 2008.
In entrance hall, huge circle and glass ceiling are above. You can see same big circle in The national art center in Tokyo because it is also designed by Kurokawa.

Suzuki had a talk about his recent works, architectural furniture. It was multi lingual presentation. We presented power point slide show in English, and Suzuki talked in Japanese and a translator talked in Chinese. An audience consists of Chinese student major in interior design and professors from many countries. Everybody was enthusiastic about his talk, especially architectural furniture’s movie and took so many photos.

After speech, Suzuki was surrounded by fan. He shaked hands and took photos like a celebrity. Maybe innovative interior-celebrity? AIDIA committee gave him a gold certificate, as a proof. In 2010, AIDIA will be hold in Japan!

Asia Interior Institute Association, AIDIA theme in 2008 was “Space.”
“Space” concerns about the existence of material movement, but in architecture and interior design area, it almost as a pronoun. It is three-dimensiional, locomotory, and can not be separate from time. How to realize its significance to designers? Such different substantive as Neoclassicism, Minimalism, Modernism, Postmodernism, etc. come and go and after all are dealing with the space ultimately. Such so called “ism” is only like the outer wear on its framework.