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The Japanese word for 'design', 'madori', carries connotations of space and form that differ markedly from Western presuppositions. An a lysis of the word and its cognates reveals another way of thinking about architecture, one that calls into question some of our basic assumptions.
The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture
Christopher Mead, The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture: Introduction2023 •
The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture traces back to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 the pathways taken by Japanese architects since 1945. Pushing past clichés of exotica, the book defamiliarizes our notions of Japan by unpacking the polysemy of a country whose history of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenization than one of cultural invention. Case studies of influential works, consequential events, and critical debates excavate the reasons why Japanese architects have grounded their work in the principle articulated in traditional thought and modern science alike that space and time are interdependent and coexistent phenomena. The possibility that buildings are dynamic events of space-in-time, rather than inert objects outside time, informs the continuing relevance of Japanese architecture and suggests how we might rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.
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During the last two centuries the field of Architectural design in Japan has been fascinating worldwide architects, designers and students. Aesthetic elegance, functional pragmatism, technological sophistication or precision in craft, are just some of the concepts that describe the notable work realized in this country. Between 1603 and 1868, Japan suffered an isolation period, imposed by the Tokugawa shogunate, for almost two hundred years. During this time Japan was closed to trade which meant that its architecture did not have any influence from abroad. The first foreign architects that arrived to Japan in the end of the isolation period, late 19th century, got lost with its unique architectural design quality. In fact, the unawareness of the outside world resulted in a self-directed architecture, with a special character, eventually influencing the Japanese architecture that we know today. The study starts with a brief overview of Japan’s history and a contextualization of its architecture. In order to understand the Japanese architectural design, we study the life and work of three renown architects born in the second half of the 19th century, Josiah Conder, Bruno Taut and Frank Lloyd Wright, who either had an impact on Japanese architecture, or were influenced by it. The cultural values in Japan are also studied in the first part of the dissertation which represent a fundament for the interpretations and conclusions. In addition, the trip to Japan, for approximately one month, and the interviews made to Kengo Kuma and Sou Fujimoto, frequently referenced through the study, allow a closer look of the present situation of Japan’s architectural design. Furthermore, the life and work of four leading Japanese architecture practices of today (Tadao Ando, SANAA, Kengo Kuma and Sou Fujimoto) are studied, with the objective of finding a relation between the traditional and contemporary architecture and reflect upon the path of future generations. This work results, therefore, in a reflection about the past, present and future of architectural design in Japan. Although it has changed a lot during the last centuries, there are three essential concepts that have persisted through time: Simplicity, Spirituality and Comfort.
Genealogies often sprout to the extent of becoming mythologies. For Japanese architecture, the narratives of its rediscovery through the Western eye in diverse periods of its history have legitimized as much as mythicized its current international recognition.
Ever since the opening of Japan in 1853, the archipelago’s pre-modern wooden architecture has fascinated Western designers. The British architect Josiah Conder (1852–1920) was hired as architecture professor at Tōkyō Kōbu Daigakkō Imperial College from 1876 until 1884. He identified this architecture’s specificities and opened the way to a Japanese modern architecture with his pioneering teaching, writings and realisations. The cultural collision with the West and the modernisation process lead thus in the first place to a creative period of selection and assimilation of these Japanese pre-modern architecture specificities – balanced consonance of ornamentation, miniaturisation, asymmetry, performative design and indirect light. We discuss here four major levels defining this assimilation’s process: replication, citation, adaptation and abstraction. Architectural creations born from Japanese architecture and art’s revelation include a range spanning from borrowed elements typical of Japonisme, to abstract designs erasing the original source of inspiration.
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Japanese visual culture has been characterised with the labels “depthless” and “superflat”, suggesting a sensitivity to two-dimensional constructs such as shape and figure. How might this sensibility translate to the spatial world of architecture? Via an updated deployment of patterns and layers, suggests a new book that assembles research from the lab of Kengo Kuma at Architecture Department of the University of Tokyo. Entitled “Patterns and Layering – Japanese Spatial Culture, Nature and Architecture”, and edited by two Italian researchers at Kuma lab Salvator-John Liotta and Matteo Belfiore, the book brings together essays, analyses, and design demonstrations exploring the potential of these concepts in developing a fresh approach to architectural space-making, yet one resonant with key elements of the Japanese tradition. Julian Worrall, Professor at Waseda University http://shop.gestalten.com/patterns-layering.html http://www.domusweb.it/en/reviews/2013/10/11/patterns_and_layering.html
Patterns and Layering. Japanese Spatial Culture, Nature and Architecture
European and Japanese Space: A Different Perception Through Artists’ Eyes2012 •
This paper defines the sense of nature for Japanese culture according to the interpretation of the philosopher Testuro Watsuji, provides an overview of the devices of traditional Japanese spatiality and shows through a critical analysis of various projects by Ryue Nishiwaza, Kengo Kuma and Suo Fujimoto as Japanese contemporary architecture has renewed its bond with nature. The results show a real interest in integrating nature into architectural design reflection and several strategies to do so.
Conference proceedings, "Why Does Modernism Refuse to Die?"
Before and Beyond the Modern: Japanese Society, Culture, and Design2002 •
Any discussion of the survival and re-birth of Modern architecture begs the question “what is Modernism?”, a question problematic enough in itself. Yet when we consider Modernism’s pervasiveness in non-Western countries the question becomes much more challenging. It demands consideration of its social corollary: the more fundamental query of “what is Modernity?” This paper will attempt to illustrate, with reference to traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, how a number of qualities of Japanese society and culture problematize our definitions of these terms. A rethinking of our preconceptions of Modernity and Modernism can suggest how it might be that Modernism is still with us when so many of the values on which it is based – values of Modernity – have been called into question.
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