Handbook of Japanese Modern Architecture

Ari Seligmann is Professor and currently Associate Dean, Education for the Monash University Art Design & Architecture Faculty, Australia.

• Introduction. A Stroll through Japanese Modern Architecture Part 1: Translations 1. The Genesis of “Architecture” in Japan 2. Western Agendas: The Modernity of Traditional Japanese Buildings and the Expectation of Traditional Characteristics in Modern Japanese Architecture 3. Sei’ichi Shirai: Reconsidering Tradition and Going Back to the Source of Creation 4. The Debates on Tradition: 1953–1957 5. Architecture as Imaginary Construct: The Shifting Nature of Architectural Knowledge Produced in the Korean Modern Context of the Early 20th Century 6. Aspects of Architectural Exchange in Postwar Japan and China: Before and After the Normalization of Diplomatic Relations Part 2: Materializations 7. Changes in Japanese Building Culture 8. Modernization of Houses and Women in Interwar Japan 9. Evolving Notions of Craft Accompanying the Modernization of Japan 10. Swapping Savvy: Technology Transfer in Japanese Architecture and Construction 11. Under Pressure: Historic and Contemporary Forces Shaping Kyo-machiya 12. From Scrap-and-Build to Adapt and Sustain: Towards a Regenerative Temporality in Japanese Architecture Part 3: Mediations 13. For Foreign Consumption: Japanese National Pavilions at International Exhibitions 14. Curating Japanese Architecture: Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, 2016 and 2018 15. Mediating and Constructing the Field of Japanese Architecture: Press, Periodicals and Productions 16. Role of Architectural Periodicals in Defining Japanese Architecture in the West 17. Yasujiro Ozu as an Architect: Postwar Living Space Represented in Film 18. The Image of Tokyo in the Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa 19. Architectural Models in Japan from Ancient to Present: Their Methods and Meanings Part 4: Characterizations 20. Characterizing Japanese Architecture 21. The Interconnected Traditions of Japanese Wooden Architecture and Global Modernism 22. Japanese Architecture May Not Be What You Think 23. The Potential of Japanese Architecture 24. Vicissitudes of Ma: Space-Time in a Global Context 25. Regaining Humanity Through Architecture: Recent Japanese Architecture