Contemporary Japanese Architecture-E2
| Numbering Code | U-LAS05 20047 LE74 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | Mainly 1st year students | Target Student | For all majors | |
| Language | English | Day/Period | Tue.3 | |
| Instructor name | DANIELL，Thomas Charles (Graduate School of Engineering Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | This course comprises a broad survey of contemporary Japanese architecture from the 1960s until the early twenty-first century. The content will be organized around detailed analyses of the work and career of significant architects. | |||
| Course Goals | By the end of this course, students will: Recognize the various styles, specific architects, dates, and locations of important buildings; Understand the climatic, technological, socioeconomic, and cultural factors that have shaped the architecture; Learn to employ basic methods of data collection in research; Assemble this research into a cogent structure. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
The course comprises an approximately chronological sequence of lectures. The topics and sequence may be altered during the semester. 01 Kenzo Tange / Metabolism 02 Arata Isozaki / Kisho Kurokawa 03 Kazuo Shinohara / Hiroshi Hara 04 Toyo Ito / Itsuko Hasegawa 05 Hiromi Fujii / Takefumi Aida 06 Osamu Ishiyama / Basara 07 Terunobu Fujimori / ROJO 08 Tadao Ando / Shin Takamatsu 09 Kengo Kuma / Shigeru Ban 10 Kazuyo Sejima / Ryue Nishizawa 11 Hitoshi Abe / Shuhei Endo 12 Atelier Bow-Wow / Tezuka Architects 13 Junya Ishigami / Sou Fujimoto 14 Review 15 Feedback |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Students must write short reports on the content of each of the 12 lectures, following the templates provided. The reports must be submitted within one week of each lecture (12 x 5 = 60 points). Students must visit one of the buildings from the list provided by the instructor, and write a 2000-word illustrated essay about it (40 points). | |||
| Course Requirements | No prior knowledge is required. Students should be able to participate in discussions with their classmates in English. | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Students are expected to have read the relevant chapter(s) in the main textbook before each class. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References |
An Anatomy of Influence, Thomas Daniell, (AA Publications), ISBN:978-1907896965 After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan, Thomas Daniell, (Princeton Architectural Press), ISBN:978-1568987767 |
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| References, etc. |
Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tracing the Next Generation, James Steele, (Routledge), ISBN:978-1138941250 The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture: From the Founders to Shinohara and Isozaki, David B. Stewart, (Kodansha International), ISBN:978-4770029331 Contemporary Japanese Architects: Profiles in Design, Taro Igarashi, (JPIC), ISBN:978-4866580210 |
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