ED98, ED198, ED298 Fall 2015 Colloquium: Race, Space and Ethics: Architecture and the Incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II Tuesdays: Sept 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29,
7-10 pm
Room 112, Wurster Hall Colloquium Leader, Lynne Horiuchi, in collaboration with C. Greig Crysler Office hours: Strada, 3:30-­‐5:30 pm Wed Colloquium Description:
This five-week course will link the historic case of the mass incarceration for Japanese and
Japanese Americans during World War II to contemporary issues of race, space, ethics,
identity and architecture through a series of lectures and visiting guest lecturers. The course
will include brief lectures on the U. S. government’s racialized removal and incarceration of
approximately 120,000 people identified as ‘people of Japanese ancestry’ from the west
coast. The lectures will also explore the architectural practice and the ethics of building and
maintaining prison cities, opening up discussion to contemporary issues about incarceration.
A tour of Japantown will be followed by a lecture on the settlement and movement of
Japanese, Japanese Americans and African Americans into and out of the Western Addition
exploring the power of racial covenants and forced movement.
A number of guest lecturers will present their work with a focus on the conceptualization of
issues of racial injustice and incarceration, and the ways the interpretation of such issues
may challenge racial profiling, incarceration, criminalization, and violence, including:
• Chizu and Emiko Omori –filmmakers whom the U.S. government imprisoned as
children and who produced the award winning film, Rabbit and the Moon
http://www.pbs.org/pov/rabbitinthemoon/film_description.php
• Scott Tsuchitani, Tina Takemoto – artists who explore LGBTQ and ethnic identity in
their work on the incarceration of Japanese American communities
http://www.scotttsuchitani.com/
http://ttakemoto.com/
• Anoma Pieris, an architectural historian teaching at the University of Melbourne,
who will lecture on the Australian POW prison camp at Cowra, Australia and the
Japanese internment camp at Changi, Singapore
http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/people/anoma-pieris
• Margaret Ikeda, principal of the Berkeley design firm Assembly, will present on her
work preserving a site for memorializing the Japanese American community in
Arroyo Grande, California. She will also lead a design charrette for the site.
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Colloquium Format: The class will meet once a week, starting on September 1 and
concluding on September 29. Each class will include a lecture by an outside speaker, and
extended question and answer session. The lectures and the discussion sessions that follow
them will be led by Dr. Lynne Horiuchi, an expert on the spaces of Japanese American
incarceration, and a graduate of the Ph.D program in Architectural History at UC Santa
Barbara. One weekly journal/think piece (minimum 200 words will be required for
completion prior to each class. Attendance is mandatory.
Lynne Horiuchi is an architectural historian who received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the
University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles in university
presses and peer reviewed journals on the art of Mine Okubo, racial covenants in gated
communities, the movement of the Japanese American community in and out of San
Francisco, incarceration, and other related topics. She is completing a book, Dislocations and
Relocations: Building Prison Cities for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War
II (University of Washington Press 2016). She also has edited with Tanu Sankalia a
collection of essays, Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island (University of
Hawaii Press 2016). An ardent community planner, she has served on planning boards in
West Oakland, over the last 15 years using her experience with African American community
leaders as an inspiration for her work. She has worked at Caltrans as an environmental
planner and engineer. She is currently serving on the Rosie the Riveter National Park Trust
Board. She taught for two years at the University of North Carolina in the Department or
Architecture.
Colloquium Requirements:
Attendance and weekly journal/think pieces (minimum 200 words).
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Grading (graduates and undergraduates)
Pass/fail based on attendance and think pieces turned in during class period = 100%
Weekly Schedule
Week 1 (Tuesday, September 1) - Introduction
Introduction and overview of the incarceration of Japanese American Communities
during World War II
Emiko and Chizuko Omori will screen their film followed by Q & A:
The Rabbit and the Moon: A Documentary/Memoir about the World War II
American Incarceration Camps. San Francisco: Emiko Omori, 2004.
Week 2 (Tuesday, September 8)
Meet at 7:45 pm in the Japan Center Mall in the seating area of May’s Coffee
Shop at 1737 Post St. for snacks (it will be closed but we have permission to
use the seating area). It’s just inside the mall to the west of the Peace Pagoda
(five-tiered concrete stupa designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi). Or, meet us at the
Downtown Berkeley BART Station at 6:50 on the platform to catch the 6:55
train to San Francisco. A lecture on historic Japantown and some touring will
follow. The lecture will begin at 8:15 in the Japanese American Cultural
Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter Street in the Issei Memorial Hall.
Week 3 (Tues, September 15)
Anoma Pieris, Visiting Scholar at IURD, will lecture on on the Australian
POW prison camp at Cowra, Australia and the Japanese internment camp at
Changi, Singapore within the larger context of World War II in Asia.
http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/people/anoma-pieris
Week 4 – (Tuesday, September 22)
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Presentations by guest artists, Scott Tsuchitani and Tina Takemoto. Tina and
Scott have both explored gendered identities, race, cross-dressing, drag and
the incarceration in their art work. Tina’s art directly engages lesbian and gay
issues as well as memory, grief, and intimacy. Scott’s work includes an essay
on yellow-face and the marketing of images of the incarceration.
Week 5– (Tuesday, September 29)
Margaret Ikeda, a Lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department of Architecture
and a principal of the design firm Assembly, will present her work on an
ongoing oral history and site project with the rural Japanese American
communities near Arroyo Grande on California’s Central Coast. She will
conduct a participatory charrette with input from students.
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Texts:
This is largely a lecture and guest lecture class with Q &A. Lynne Horiuchi is available for
suggestions for additional readings or discussion during office hours. For those interested,
here are some related key references:
Albrecht, Donald Crawford Margaret National Building Museum. World War II and the
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Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in
Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Cohen, Jean-Louis. Architecture in Uniform : Designing and Building for the Second
World War. Montréal; Paris; New Haven, Conn.: Canadian Centre for Architecture
and distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Personal Justice
Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of
Civilians. Washington, D.C. and Seattle: The Civil Liberties Public Education Fund
and the University of Washington Press, 1997.
Daniels, Roger, “Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the
Incarceration of the Japanese Americans Nikkei” in The Pacific Northwest: Japanese
Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century, edited by Louis Fiset
and Gail Nomura. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
DeMars, Vernon Armand, Suzanne B. Riess and The Bancroft Library, Office of
Regional Oral History. A Life in Architecture: Indian Dancing, Migrant Housing,
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Dempster, Brian Komei. Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile
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Fiset, Louis. Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly
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Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: a Japanese American Community in
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published in 1946).
Omori, Emiko, Chizuko Omori, Frank Emi, Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig, James Hirabayashi,
Hisaye Yamamoto, Shosuke Sasaki, Ernest Besig, Harry Ueno, Mits Koshiyama,
Frank Miyamoto, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, James Matsumoto Omura and Productions
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