Introduction: A Stroll through Japanese Modern Architecture
Ari Seligmann
Part 1: Translations
1. The Genesis of “Architecture” in Japan
Hajime Yatsuka
2. Western Agendas: The Modernity of Traditional Japanese Buildings and the Expectation of Traditional Characteristics in Modern Japanese Architecture
Kevin Nute
3. Sei’ichi Shirai: Reconsidering Tradition and Going Back to the Source of Creation
Hannah Sasaoka-Berns
4. The Debates on Tradition: 1953–1957
Gabriel Kogan
5. Architecture as Imaginary Construct: The Shifting Nature of Architectural Knowledge Produced in the Korean Modern Context of the Early 20th Century
Yoonchun Jung
6. Aspects of Architectural Exchange in Postwar Japan and China: Before and After the Normalization of Diplomatic Relations
Koji Ichikawa
Part 2: Materializations
7. Changes in Japanese Building Culture
Naohiko Hino
8. Modernization of Houses and Women in Interwar Japan
Kiwa Matsushita and Atsuko Tanaka
9. Evolving Notions of Craft Accompanying the Modernization of Japan
Kaon Ko
10. Swapping Savvy: Technology Transfer in Japanese Architecture and Construction
Dana Buntrock
11. Under Pressure: Historic and Contemporary Forces Shaping Kyo-machiya
Mira Locher
12. From Scrap-and-Build to Adapt and Sustain: Towards a Regenerative Temporality in Japanese Architecture
Julian Worrall
Part 3: Mediations
13. For Foreign Consumption: Japanese National Pavilions at International Exhibitions
Alice Tseng
14. Curating Japanese Architecture: Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, 2016 and 2018
Tomohisa Miyauchi
15. Mediating and Constructing the Field of Japanese Architecture: Press, Periodicals and Productions
Ari Seligmann
16. Role of Architectural Periodicals in Defining Japanese Architecture in the West
Nikola Nikolovski
17. Yasujiro Ozu as an Architect: Postwar Living Space Represented in Film
Taro Igarashi
18. The Image of Tokyo in the Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tohru Horiguchi
19. Architectural Models in Japan from Ancient to Present: Their Methods and Meanings
Souhei Imamura
Part 4: Characterizations
20. Characterizing Japanese Architecture
Ari Seligmann
21. The Interconnected Traditions of Japanese Wooden Architecture and Global Modernism
Terunobu Fujimori
22. Japanese Architecture May Not Be What You Think
David Stewart
23. The Potential of Japanese Architecture
Kengo Kuma
24. Vicissitudes of Ma: Space-Time in a Global Context
Ken Oshima
25. Regaining Humanity Through Architecture: Recent Japanese Architecture
Kumiko Inui
Biography
Ari Seligmann is Professor and currently Associate Dean, Education for the Monash University Art Design & Architecture Faculty, Australia.
