Join University of Washington professor of architecture, Ken Tadashi Oshima for “The In-Between Space of Isamu Noguchi’s Black Sun” a lecture at the Seattle Asian Art Museum exploring the trajectories of Isamu Noguchi’s famous sculpture. This paid lecture is part of SAM’s Saturday University, a monthly lecture series featuring experts from around the world and offers new insights on Asia throughout time. Specifically, Oshima’s lecture will explore Noguchi’s 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 Ken Tadashi Oshima
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. 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).
Event Details:
Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 2-3:30 p.m. | Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E Prospect St., Seattle, WA, 98112
You can learn more and purchase tickets at this link