Japanese Film/architecture research

[shireen seno]

Sorry for sending that email out to the group!

Shireen

On 21-Mar-06, at 12:03 AM, m.rodrigo garcia wrote:

> Dear Aaron Gerow
>
> My name is Merce Rodrigo,
> I am a visiting Research Associate at the Tokyo Institute of  
> Technology
> and I work in cooperation with its Department of Architecture.
> My research is funded by the Canon Foundation in Europe and the Tokyo
> Institute of Technology acts as my main host institution.
> I have arrived to Tokyo recently and I am trying to set up a structure
> that will help me to carry out my research with the appropriate  
> resources
> during the next nine months.
>
> The reason why I decided to contact you is my actual subject of study:
> Under the title: JAPANESE-CONSTRUCTED SETTINGS TO SUIT VARIOUS WAYS OF
> INHABITING. ARCHITECTURE AS A BACKDROP FOR EMERGENT SOCIAL  
> STRUCTURES IN
> JAPAN AS PORTRAYED IN RECENT JAPANESE FILMOGRAPHY,
> the project has a cross disciplinary approach. My thesis will be  
> argued
> and contrasted against architectural theory while it will draw the  
> main
> fieldwork
> materials from film.
> I could send you the research outline text in a next e mail.
>
> Given your specialisation in Japanese Film and Culture I thought it
> appropriate to contact you and ask you for some general advice on my
> research subject, mainly suggestions of film titles that could be
> relevant.
> As well as that, I also wanted to ask you if you could recommend a
> institution, university or school and a scholar that tackles  
> Japanese film
> that I could apply to be my second host institution
>
> I very much look forward to hearing from you, and will be very  
> gratefully
> with any type of information or advice that you would provide.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Merce Rodrigo Garcia
>
>
> merce rodrigo garcia
> me.sa at uclmail.net
> +81(0)9085077421
> anburoido haitsu building
> 3-22-6-303 nakameguro
> meguro-ku
> tokyo 153-0061
>