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Junya Ishigami
The first time Junya Ishigami made himself known in Europe, with his proposal for the Japan Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, he was a young an almost unknown architect who had worked for several years with Kazuo Sejima and had not long with his studio junya.ishigami +associates, founded in 2004. In the Venice pavilion, Ishigami filled all the interior walls of the pavilion with delicate a somehow naèif drawings of gardens and decided to build several greenhouses with real gardens in the outdoor gardens of the building. The following year, he finished the Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, and with only two works he was acclaimed as one of the most innovative proposals of the recent Japanese architecture. Forcing the limits of transparency and lightness in the beginning, his latest works explore in a conceptual way the relationships between the built matter and the nature, in works such as the Botanical Farm Garden in Tochigi, a multi confessional chapel in China or the house and restaurant for a chef in Japan, where the exploration of the tectonic merges with the telluric and the nature.
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EXAMINING THE EXPLICIT QUALITIES IN JAPANESE SPATIAL ATMOSPHERE THROUGH HAIKU phrase omitted AND HAIGA phrase omitted EXAMPLES: THE LAYER OF NARRATION
In any focus on an aesthetic experience one may find both sensational and cognitive qualities, referred to as the scene and scenario, respectively. Hence, an experiencer tries to decipher the scenario--a narration--by sensing the scene--space--through the spatial atmosphere. Thus, space starts to transform into a poetic experience. Japanese architecture, on account of a number of inherent qualities, has the capability to convey such narrations in spaces. In Japanese examples, an experiencer tries to derive the narration that emanates from explicit qualities--sensational, such as textual, visual, audial, or tactile phenomena--with his/her implicit qualities-- cognitive/intellectual abilities. The article examines the layer of narration of Japanese architectural structure through haiku [phrase omitted] and haiga [phrase omitted] examples, and in doing so, utilizes the layers proposed on behalf of the explicit and implicit qualities: nature-based and feeling-based.
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The hypospace of Japanese architecture
\"Traditional thought fused with modern science when Hiroshima's nuclear annihilation on August 6, 1945, proved the interdependence of space and time. Since the war, Japanese architects have probed the relativity of spacetime through critical debates, pivotal theories, and consequential buildings. The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture pushes past clichés of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenization than one of cultural invention. The realization that buildings are dynamic events--phenomena of space-in-time, not inert objects outside time--continues to inform Japanese architecture and suggests how we can rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.\"
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Constructing the Colonized Land
Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period.
Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; the role played by various media; and the influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods.
The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia's colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future.
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The Narration of Architectural Space as a Way of Constructing the Spatial Atmosphere: Two Readings of Contemporary Japanese Architecture
The aesthetic comprehension of space is a process of transforming the user into an experiencer and narrator. In Japanese architecture, spatial narration is a method of constructing a bridge between the experiencer and space. This article examines the role of spatial narration as a design tool for spatial atmosphere by considering two acclaimed projects of contemporary Japanese architecture.
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Japanese creativity : contemplations on Japanese architecture
What lies at the root of Japanese creativity and its architectural artifacts? In his book, the Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagawa explores this question in detail. By analyzing a wide variety of unique exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present, he determines twelve distinctive characteristics of Japanese architectural creativity and composition, including: intimacy with nature, importance of materials, bipolarity and diversity, asymmetry, devotion to small space, and organic form. The key understanding, which pervades all these characteristics, is that parts precede the whole. The Japanese process of creation begins with designing parts and details and ends with combining them to one edifice, instead of starting with a whole structure and working out the components afterwards. Edagawa provides a personal and comprehensive understanding of Japanese creativity and the architectural process. The book gives us an inspiring insight into Japanese culture and identity, which in its essence is deeply traditional and modern at the same time.
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La casa como fragmento de naturaleza. Tres mecanismos de la arquitectura japonesa contemporánea
Para la cultura tradicional japonesa, la casa no puede entenderse sin su vinculación con la naturaleza, hecho que está presente en la configuración de la vivienda y en el valor simbólico de ciertos elementos constructivos. Esto queda reflejado, a principios del siglo XX, en los escritos de algunos autores occidentales que visitaron el país, y en otros de autores japoneses, contraponiendo estas cualidades tan apreciadas de la casa tradicional a los rápidos y sustanciales cambios que se estaban produciendo en la cultura, y por ende en la arquitectura, japonesas. A lo largo del siglo XX, la adopción de las técnicas y lenguajes de occidente y la búsqueda de un lenguaje propio, propiciaron que el interés por la casa y su relación con la naturaleza se alejaran de los principales focos de atención arquitectónicos. No será hasta finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI que la importancia de esta relación vuelva a ser reivindicada por diversos autores, que la colocarán en el centro de las inquietudes proyectuales de algunas de sus obras. En cierto sentido, estas actitudes se verán influidas por los ideales presentes en la tradición, pero sin que prevalezca una imitación del referente. Será a través de la generación nuevos mecanismos proyectuales, tres de los cuales recogeremos en este texto, que se retomará esa búsqueda del acercamiento entre naturaleza y arquitectura.
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Encounters and positions : architecture in Japan
Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle japanische Architektur, ihre Gestaltungskonzepte sowie ihre vielfältigen Bezüge. Dreizehn Architekten stellen in Interviews und anhand exemplarischer Entwürfe ihre Entwurfsmethodologien vor und geben Einblicke in die Grundlagen und Hintergründe ihres Schaffens; darunter junge Architekten, die aktuell international Bekanntheit erlangt haben, Architekten, die innerhalb der japanischen Architektur eigenständige Haltungen vertreten, sowie die Pritzkerpreisträger Toyo Ito und Fumihiko Maki.Das Buch zeigt, wie sich die Architekten auf Ästhetik, Raumkonzeptionen sowie Tradition in Japan - und ausserhalb - beziehen. Darüber hinaus vermitteln sechs ergänzende Texte Grundlagen und Geschichte der japanischen Architektur.
Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making cross-references to Japan’s architectural history, and explaining current lines of development. The book thus combines a self-reflective approach with an outsider’s analytical view.
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