Science Tokyo Front "Flight"

Metal Monument

President, Tokyo Institute of Technology
IGA Kenichi
Tokyo Institute of Technology celebrates its 130th anniversary in 2011. On this occasion, we set up an action plan "Tokyo Institute of Technology 130" to achieve the quality qualified for the world's best science and engineering university in the theme of "education, research and contribution" towards "creation of our country by science and technology", and are going to execute it proactively. Many people's supports are indispensable for its enrichment and expansion. Among them, alumni who are active in many fields are a major support for the university. Science Tokyo Front, which was jointly constructed by Tokyo Tech Alumni Association, which is the mother for the above alumni, and Tokyo Institute of Technology, has been completed. This time, a monument "Flight" produced by Mr. MIYATA Ryohei, President of Tokyo University of the Arts, has been donated by Mr. TAKI Hisao, who graduated from our university to commemorate it.

Director General of JPTCA
TAKI Hisao
Congratulations on completing "Science Tokyo Front".
Tokyo Institute of Technology, which is also my alma mater, has a tradition of promoting introduction of science and technology into art such as promotion of ceramic industry. With the idea of Kenichi Iga, President of Tokyo Institute of Technology, I asked Ryohei Miyata, President of Tokyo University of the Arts, to produce a monument with wishes for a collaboration of science, technology, art and culture, and further flight to the future. The future bonds of the schools are represented by fusion of "Swallow", the symbol of Tokyo Institute of Technology and "Dolphin", President MIYATA's production theme. The fact that this monument "Flight" will keep watching further development of the two schools in the future, and that I acquired the friendship between the two schools this time is also supreme joy for me .