Shin Egashira
Thursday 24th February 2022, 6.30pm
Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [0003]
Shin Egashira is an architect, artist, educator and PhD candidate who works collaboratively worldwide. His experiments fuse old and new technologies, and include the construction of Alfred Jarry’s Time Machine alongside astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe; ‘How to Walk a Flat elephant’, ‘Twisting Concrete’ and ‘Beautifully Incomplete’ at Betts Projects. He conducts a series of landscape workshops in rural and inner-city communities inter-culturally.
Shin Egashira is Unit Master of Diploma Unit 11 at the AA (Architectural Association) in London, with whom he has been critically documenting neoliberal urban development in London from 1996 to the present day. He holds visiting professorships at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and the University of Hong Kong.
