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Architectural accessibility and disability rights in Berkeley and Japan /
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Architectural accessibility and disability rights in Berkeley and JapanDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Kawauchi, Yoshihiko, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lifchez, Raymond, 1932-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Breslin, Mary Lou, 1944-, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
O'Hara, Susan, 1938-, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office,, issuing body.Abstract:
Childhood in rural Japan, 1953-73; campus demonstrations over treaty rewrite between Japan and US; neck broken in judo competition;
second degree architect license; opens architecture office from home; more professional freedom with driver's license; social
life as a young person with disability; starts school program for disability awareness; studying independent living movement
and access in US, 1989; concept of universal design; formation of Legal Advocacy for the Defense of People with Disabilities
(LADD); ADA impact on Japanese law; writes first book on universal design, 2000; difference in meaning of disability rights
in Japan; impact of LADD; efforts to develop anti-discrimination law in Japan; expanded role on international level.
Family and education; student strike at Columbia University, 1968; move to University of California, Berkeley, 1970; comparison
of Berkeley and Ward's Island; first in the Department of Architecture to teach student with significant disability; people
with disabilities as consultants in design; Distinguished Teaching Award; new humanism in architectural practice; access survey
of campus buildings; nominated for American Book Award, 1980; "interview in place"; Scientific American; Exxon Grant; second
book, Rethinking Architecture; support for disability projects; The Dervish Lodge (1992); Elaine Ostroff and adaptive environments;
network of committed individuals; Design for Independent Living; teaching for a semester at Tsinghua University, Beijing,
fall 1987; Judith Stronach.
Date:
2000 (issued)Contents:
Universal design and legal advocacy for people with disabilities in Japan / Yoshihiko Kawauchi -- Educator in architectural
access, University of California, Berkeley / Raymond Lifchez.
Subject:
n-us--- -- a-ja---People with disabilities -- Japan -- Interviews
Universal design -- Japan
Barrier-free design -- Japan
People with disabilities -- Services for -- Japan
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- Japan
Barrier-free design -- United States
Architecture -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- Berkeley
Personnes handicapées -- Japon -- Entretiens
Conception universelle -- Japon
Accessibilité aux personnes handicapées -- Japon
Personnes handicapées -- Services -- Japon
Personnes handicapées -- Droits -- Japon
Accessibilité aux personnes handicapées -- États-Unis
Architecture -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Barrier-free design
People with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Civil rights
People with disabilities -- Services for
Universal design
California -- Berkeley
Japan
United States
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Architecture.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Architecture.
Kawauchi, Yoshihiko -- Interviews
Lifchez, Raymond -- 1932- -- Interviews
Note:
interviews conducted by Mary Lou Breslin and Susan O'Hara in 2000 and 2002.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Interview transcripts also available online.
Interviews for Raymond Lifchez also available on audiocassette (Phonotape 4045 C).
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Interviews.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
1 volume (vi, 98 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
3 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
Oral histories are made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions
Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.