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Welcome to Saturday University, a monthly lecture series featuring experts from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our visiting scholars, authors, artists, and thought leaders delve into new themes each season.The In-Between Space of Isamu Noguchi’s Black Sun
This lecture examines the trajectories of Isamu Noguchi’s Black Sun (1969), prominently situated in front of the Seattle Asian Art Museum, through his interdisciplinary, globe-spanning career intersecting in the Pacific Northwest. This research is part of the exhibition/book, Isamu Noguchi: ”I am not a designer” organized by the High Museum of Art and currently on display at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
About the speaker
Ken Tadashi Oshima is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches cross-national architectural history, theory and design. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard GSD and UCLA. Dr. Oshima is a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and served as President from 2016-18. He curated the exhibitions LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday (2025), The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World (2023) and is author of Kiyonori Kikutake Between Land and Sea (2015), International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku (2009), and Arata Isozaki (2009).
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Event venue
Seattle Asian Art Museum Volunteer Park, 1400 E Prospect St,Seattle, Washington, United States
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