Architect Kiyonori Kikutake and Dr. J. P. Craven’s Floating City Project
-Hawaii Floating City’76 and Other Endeavors –
In the WCFS 2023 Japan, a special exhibition
of the historic endeavor on realization of
the floating community concept will be
presented that was carried out in
cooperation with engineers, architects and
practitioners.
The historic attempt of the ‘Hawaii Floating
City ’76 Concept stared in 1971. In order to
realize the concept into realization, the
State Government of Hawaii appointed a
special team that was led by architect
Kiyonori Kikutake and Dr. John P. Craven,
system integrator & Dean of the Marine
Program, Univ. of Hawaii. Intention of the
special exhibition is to introduce
significance of this historic challenge and
other related endeavors to share treasured
information with the conference
participants hoping that it may stimulate
realization of floating community.
