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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u3000In the second half, each Japanese university gave a talk on the activities of each of their architectural archives. Motoki Katsuhara gave a talk entitled, \u201cEstablishing a Circulation of Knowledge around Architectural Materials\u201d, describing the architectural archive initiative at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Takuya Miyake of the Kyoto Institute of Technology spoke of, \u201cArchitecture Collection of the Museum and Archives, Kyoto Institute of Technology, describing his university\u2019s architectural archives. Ayumu Saito of Kyoto University gave a talk entitled, \u201cResearch Resource Archive, Kyoto University and Architectural Records,\u201d speaking of that university\u2019s architectural archives. Takako Fujimoto of Hosei University gave a talk entitled, \u201cTeaching with Drawings of Hiroshi Ohe\u201d. Jin Motohashi of the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art gave a talk entitled, \u201cWaseda Architecture Archives\u201d. Miru Rokkaku of Kanagawa University gave a talk entitled, \u201cRokkaku Kijo: His Philosophy, Works, Drawings and Models\u201d, while Masaaki Iwamoto spoke of the Shoei Yoh Archive at Kyushu University, and I gave a talk entitled, \u201cShoei Yoh Digital Restoration,\u201d of the digital restoration of the lost architecture of Shoei Yoh. Sadly, we learned that each university faced three major challenges, namely a shortage of funds, space, and manpower for their activities. While the outlook is not bright, the symposium was an opportunity to share issues and knowledge, thereby serving as a major step forward for those of us involved in small-scale university archives, though that step may be objectively small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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