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!#+./7,%$'-%.43 ) WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH GREAT APPRECIATION THE GENEROUS SUPPORT ) RECEIVED FOR MY WORK ON THIS BOOK FROM THE 2ESEARCH "OARD OF THE 5NIVERSITY OF )LLINOIS AND THE !SIAN 3TUDIES &UNDING )NITIATIVE OF THE #ENTER FOR %AST !SIAN AND 0ACImC 3TUDIES 5NIVERSITY OF )LLINOIS ) WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK +ENGO +UMA AND HIS OFmCE FOR HIS SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THIS PUBLICATION "OTOND "OGNAR 5RBANA )LLINOIS .OVEMBER
).42/$5#4)/. +%.'/ +5-! -Y ULTIMATE AIM IS TO iERASEw ARCHITECTURE BECAUSE ) BELIEVE THAT A BUILDING SHOULD BECOME ONE WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS 4HIS IS HOW ) HAVE ALWAYS FELT THIS IS HOW ) WILL CONTINUE TO FEEL (OW THEN CAN ARCHITECTURE BE MADE TO DISAPPEAR 7HEN ) DESIGNED THE - "UILDING o IN 4OKYO AT THE BEGINNING OF MY CAREER ) BELIEVED THAT IF ) CREATED AN ARCHITECTURE OF FRAGMENTATION THE BUILDING WOULD DISSOLVE AND BLEND INTO THE CHAOS THAT SURROUNDED IT 4OKYO IS OFTEN CALLED A iCITY OF CHAOS w WHERE THE OLD AND THE NEW THE SMALL AND THE LARGE THE ARTImCIAL AND THE NATURAL ARE MIXED TOGETHER WITHOUT ANY DISCERNIBLE ORDER 9OU WILL ENCOUNTER THIS PHENOMENONWHICH IS BOTH A WEAKNESS AND AN ATTRACTIONIN MANY !SIAN CITIES )T WAS PARTICULARLY PREDOMINANT IN THE LATE S WHEN 4OKYO WAS FULL OF ENERGY AND BUSINESS WAS BOOMING 3UDDENLY AFTER EVERYTHING CHANGED 4HE ECONOMIC BUBBLE HAD BURST AND THE ONLY JOBS THAT CAME MY WAY WERE SMALL SCALE PROJECTS IN PROVINCIAL CITIES 4HE mRST COMMISSION ) RECEIVED OUTSIDE OF 4OKYO IN WAS TO BUILD AN OBSERVATORY ATOP -OUNT +IRO ON /SHIMA A SMALL ISLAND IN THE )NLAND 3EA 4HE SUMMIT HAD BEEN LEVELED AND WAS USED AS A PARK AND THE MAYOR OF 9OSHIUMI ASKED ME TO DESIGN AN OBSERVATORY THERE THAT COULD SERVE AS THE TOWNS SYMBOL ) PROCEEDED TO MAKE A VARIETY OF MOCKUPS RANGING FROM CYLINDERS TO CONES TO GLASS BOXES BUT NONE OF THEM SEEMED RIGHT 4HEN A THOUGHT OCCURRED TO ME WHY NOT BURY THE OBSERVATORY !S LONG AS IT WAS DESIGNED AS A STRUCTURE SEPARATE FROM THE ENVIRONMENT IT WOULD REMAIN A FOREIGN OBJECT IN ITS SURROUNDINGS NO MATTER WHAT SHAPE OR FORM ) USED OR WHAT MATERIAL ) EMPLOYED 3O ) PLANNED TO INVERT THE FORMAT ITSELF FROM CONVEX TO CONCAVE AND FROM OBJECT TO VOID -Y INTENTION WAS TO EMBED THE BUILDING INTO THE MOUNTAIN BY CREATING A 5 SHAPED CONCRETE FORM ABOVE THE PARK AND THEN RESTORING THE ORIGINAL SHAPE OF THE MOUNTAIN OVER IT 4HROUGH THE PROCESS OF COVERING THE GROUND WITH SOIL AND PLANTING GREENERY ) WAS ABLE TO CREATE AN ARCHITECTURAL FORM THAT WHEN SEEN FROM ABOVE LOOKED LIKE A SLIT CUT INTO THE EARTH 3EEN FROM THE GROUND HOWEVER IT APPEARED TO BE AN ORDINARY MOUNTAIN )F THE FORM TAKEN BY CONVENTIONAL ARCHITECTURE IS AN iOBJECT w THEN THIS IS A iVOID w OR THE EXACT REVERSE OF AN OBJECT !N ARCHITECTURAL FORM HAS BEEN ERASED 4HIS VOID HOWEVER EMBRACES A SEQUENCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES ) THUS DISCOVERED THE POTENTIAL OF ARCHITECTURE TO ACT AS AN EXPERIENCE OR PHENOMENON RATHER THAN AS AN OBJECT 4HE NEXT IMPORTANT TURNING POINT FOR ME CAME A FEW MONTHS LATER WHEN ) WAS ASKED TO DESIGN A GUESTHOUSE ON A LOT IN !TAMI WHICH FACED THE 0ACImC /CEAN 7HILE ) WAS WALKING AROUND THE PREMISES A NEIGHBOR APPROACHED ME AND TOLD ME THAT A FAMOUS ARCHITECT HAD DESIGNED HIS HOUSE (E INVITED ME TO DROP BY IF ) WAS INTERESTED (IS HOME LOOKED LIKE AN ORDINARY HOUSE FROM THE OUTSIDE BUT WHEN ) SET FOOT INSIDE ) WAS TRULY AMAZED BY THE MYSTERIOUS ATMOSPHERE THAT PERVADED IT IT WAS THE (YUGA 2ESIDENCEALSO KNOWN AS THE 0HANTOM (OUSEDESIGNED BY THE 'ERMAN ARCHITECT "RUNO 4AUT o 4AUT nED 'ERMANY IN AND MOVED TO *APAN !LTHOUGH HIS LIFE IN *APAN'ERMANYS ALLY DURING THE WARWAS BY NO MEANS A HAPPY ONE HE COMPLETED TWO HOUSES THERE /NE WAS THE HOUSE IN !TAMI WHICH IMPRESSED ME SO MUCH THAT ) BEGAN TO DEVOUR A WHOLE SERIES OF BOOKS BY THE ARCHITECT %VEN THOUGH HE
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STAYED IN *APAN FOR ONLY THREE YEARS HIS UNDERSTANDING OF *APANESE CULTURE WAS SURPRISINGLY DEEP AND ) LEARNED A GOOD DEAL ABOUT MY COUNTRY FROM HIS BOOKS 4AUT WAS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY +ATSURA 6ILLA IN +YOTO WHICH HE VIEWED FROM HIS OWN UNIQUE ANGLE (E DID NOT PRAISE ITS SIMPLE FORM AS *APANESE MODERNISTS OF THE S DID EXTOLLING IT FOR BEING AKIN TO THE FORMS THAT MODERNISM ADVOCATED )N HIS BOOKS 4AUT TOUCHES ONLY BRIEnY ON THE VILLAS FORM -OST OF HIS WRITING FOCUSES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND THE ARCHITECTURE AND ON THE SEQUENCE OF EXPERIENCES THAT PEOPLE ENCOUNTER WHILE WALKING AROUND THE VILLA 4HE ARCHITECTURAL FORM OF THE +ATSURA 6ILLA HE WRITES IF REGARDED IN ISOLATION IS EXTREMELY MODEST ALMOST SHACKLIKE #ONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VILLA AND ITS GARDEN AS WELL AS THE VARIED EXPERIENCES IT OFFERS HOWEVER +ATSURAS ARCHITECTURE IS RICHER THAN ANY %UROPEAN FORM 4AUT CRITICIZED ,E #ORBUSIER AND -IES VAN DER 2OHE FOR EMBRACING NOTHING BUT FORMALISM AND HE ARGUED THAT THE +ATSURA 6ILLA WAS THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE FUTURE FAR AHEAD OF FORMALISM 4AUT HAD THUS ALREADY PREDICTED THE ARRIVAL OF THE AGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT !S ) READ HIS BOOKS ) DECIDED TO MAKE THE !TAMI GUESTHOUSE AN HOMAGE TO 4AUT -Y mRST STEP WAS TO CREATE A WATER DECK 4AUT HAD EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR THE +ATSURA 6ILLAS DECK MADE OF BAMBOO )N HIS VIEW A DECK IS A MEDIUM THAT LINKS THE GARDEN TO THE BUILDING IT IS THE PLACE WHERE THE ENVIRONMENT UNITES WITH THE HUMAN ELEMENT !T THE !TAMI GUESTHOUSE THE WATER DECK CREATES CONTINUITY WITH THE 0ACImC /CEAN WHICH EXTENDS TO THE FAR HORIZON LINKING IT TO THE HUMAN INHABITANTS OF THE GLASS BOX 4HE DESIGN OF THE EDGE OF THIS DECK WAS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT ) ENVISIONED IT TO LOOK AS IF THE DECK HAD SUDDENLY BEEN CHOPPED OFF IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE AN IMMEDIATE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT AND THE PEOPLE INSIDE 4HE BASIC ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT BEHIND THE 7ATER'LASS HOUSE WHICH ) COMPLETED IN WAS TO DEmNE SPACE USING TWO HORIZONTAL PLANESTHE nOOR AND THE CEILING 3INCE THE DAYS OF 'REEK CIVILIZATION SOME OF THE CENTRAL ISSUES DISCUSSED IN 7ESTERN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY HAVE BEEN THE DESIGN OF PILLARS AND THE PLACEMENT OF WALLS 6ERTICAL ELEMENTS SUCH AS COLUMNS AND WALLS ARE THE CHIEF FACTORS THAT DETERMINE ARCHITECTURAL SHAPE AND FORM AND IN PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARCHITECTURE VERTICAL ELEMENTS ARE USUALLY PREDOMINANT 4AUT HOWEVER POINTED OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HORIZONTAL ELEMENTS JUST AS TRADITIONAL *APANESE ARCHITECTURE EMPHASIZED THE DESIGN OF THE nOOR AS A CENTRAL COMPONENT )N FACT AFTER THE mFTEENTH CENTURY iELIMINATING WALLSw BECAME A SUB THEME IN *APANESE ARCHITECTURE )F TWO SPACES HAD TO BE SEPARATED A LIGHTWEIGHT MOVABLE PARTITION SUCH AS A SHØJI PAPER SLIDING DOOR OR FUSUMA SLIDING SCREEN WAS USED RATHER THAN BUILDING A WALL !T THE !TAMI GUESTHOUSE ) THEREFORE PRIORITIZED THE nOOR DESIGN THE WATER DECK PLAYS A LEADING ROLE IN THE PROJECT AND THE WALLS WERE MADE OF GLASS WHEREVER POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO DIMINISH THEIR PRESENCE #REATING ARCHITECTURE OF GLASS DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN HOWEVER THAT THE ARCHITECTURE WILL BE iERASEDw )T IS ONLY AFTER WE ACHIEVE A CONTINUITY OF SPACE THAT WE CAN SEE ARCHITECTURE DISAPPEAR LEAVING BEHIND ONLY THE EXPERIENCE OF IT 4O ACCOMPLISH THIS CONTINUITY ARCHITECTS MUST FOCUS THEIR ATTENTION ON THE nOOR AND USE IT AS A MEDIUM TO CONNECT THE PEOPLE INSIDE WITH THEIR SURROUNDINGS ,ITTLE BY LITTLE ) THUS BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL SIGNImCANCE OF iERASING ARCHITECTUREw 7HILE THE MATERIALS ) USED FOR THE 7ATER'LASS HOUSE WERE ALL CONTEMPORARY INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS SUCH AS GLASS AND STAINLESS STEEL THE PRINCIPLES OF SPACE ) EMPLOYED IN THE PROJECT WERE INnUENCED BY *APANS TRADITIONAL CONCEPT OF SPACEBROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION BY WAY OF AN ARCHITECT FROM 7ESTERN %UROPE WHO WAS AT THE CENTER OF THE MODERNIST MOVEMENT )T IS SAID THAT PEOPLE REALIZE THE VALUE OF THEIR OWN TRADITIONS
ONLY AFTER EXPERIENCING CULTURAL EXCHANGE ) SIMILARLY GAINED INSIGHT INTO THE ESSENCE OF *APANS TRADITIONS THROUGH "RUNO 4AUTS WORK ) WAS ABLE TO FURTHER EXPAND MY IDEAS IN WHEN ) DESIGNED THE 3TONE -USEUM IN .ASU 4HE CLIENT WAS A STONE DEALER WHO OPERATED A QUARRY IN A SMALL VILLAGE NAMED !SHINO AND HAD RECENTLY PURCHASED AN OLD STONE BUILT WAREHOUSE MADE OF !SHINO STONE 4HE ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD WAREHOUSE HAD BEEN USED TO STORE RICE AND THE CLIENT WANTED TO TRANSFORM IT INTO AN ART MUSEUM DISPLAYING STONE ARTS AND CRAFTS ) WAS AT mRST RELUCTANT TO TAKE ON THE JOB SINCE STONE IS NOT MY FAVORITE MATERIAL ) mND IT TOO HEAVY AND WALLS MADE OF STONE TOO OVERPOWERING 3TONE WALLS COMPLETELY CUT OFF THE INSIDE FROM THE OUTSIDE SHUTTING OUT EVEN LIGHT AND WIND &OR THE SAME REASON ) DO NOT LIKE CONCRETE 7HENEVER ) AM INSIDE A CONCRETE BUILDING ) FEEL AS IF ) AM CHOKING AND WANT TO ESCAPE AS FAST AS ) CAN !S THE PROJECT DID NOT APPEAL TO ME ) MADE A VAGUE REPLY AND RETURNED TO 4OKYO !BOUT A MONTH LATER HOWEVER ) FOUND THAT ) COULD NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT STONE AND DECIDED TO ACCEPT THE JOB 4HE PROJECT CALLED FOR SEVERAL NEW BUILDINGS WHILE THE OLD STONE WAREHOUSE WAS TO BE RETAINED AS WELL ) CONSIDERED USING GLASS BUT WAS AFRAID THAT THIS MIGHT END UP MAKING THE EXISTING WAREHOUSE LOOK EVEN HEAVIER 7AS THERE A WAY ) COULD CREATE A LIGHTWEIGHT TYPE OF ARCHITECTURE A DELICATE ARCHITECTURE EVEN WITH STONE )F SO ) FELT THAT ) COULD PERHAPS DRAW OUT THE SPECIAL TEXTURE OF STONE A TEXTURE THAT ALL NATURAL MATERIALS INHERENTLY HAVE AND THAT GLASS ALUMINUM OR STEEL CAN NEVER POSSESSA HUMAN TEXTURE IF YOU WILL /NE DAY THE IDEA OF MAKING STONE LOUVERS CAME TO MY MIND ,OUVERS ALLOW WIND AND LIGHT TO PASS THROUGH AND WITH A LOUVER DESIGN ) COULD SHOW THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE INCLUDING ITS BACK SIDE 7HAT PEOPLE CALL STONE ARCHITECTURE THESE DAYS IS FAKENOTHING MORE THAN SHEETS OF THIN STONE ABOUT EIGHT INCHES THICK PASTED ONTO EXTERIOR WALLS THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE MATERIAL IS HIDDEN FROM US 4HE USE OF LOUVERS ON THE OTHER HAND MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO SEE THROUGH THE STRUCTURE ) FELT THAT TODAYS ARCHITECTURE NEEDS THIS SORT OF HONESTY ) RUSHED TO THE CLIENTS QUARRY AND WE IMMEDIATELY SET ABOUT MAKING A MOCKUP )N THE PROCESS WE LEARNED THAT A BY INCH MM BY MM STONE BAR DID NOT BEND EVEN WHEN UP TO FEET M LONG NOR DID IT BREAK ON IMPACT 7E ALSO EXPERIMENTED WITH A MASONRY STRUCTURE WHOSE STONE BLOCKS WERE STACKED LEAVING NUMEROUS SPACES BETWEEN THE STONES !S LONG AS THE TOTAL AREA OF THE HOLES DID NOT EXCEED ONE THIRD OF THE TOTAL WALL AREA THE STRENGTH OF THE WALL WAS UNAFFECTED "Y REPLACING ONE THIRD OF IT WITH HOLES A STONE WALL THAT USED TO BE HEAVY AND INTIMIDATING WAS TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING LIGHT AND APPROACHABLE ) GRADUALLY CAME TO LIKE THIS MATERIAL AND STARTED TO BELIEVE THAT ) COULD CREATE SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM CONVENTIONAL STONE STRUCTURES .OT ONLY DID ) BECOME INTERESTED IN STONE WHILE WORKING ON THE MUSEUM THIS PROJECT ALSO OPENED MY EYES TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF OTHER NATURAL MATERIALS WHICH ) HAD AVOIDED USING BEFORE THEN .ATURAL MATERIALS ARE MOST COMMONLY EMPLOYED AS SURFACE MATERIALS THAT COVER UP AND CONCEAL CONCRETE STRUCTURES ,AYERS OF WOOD STONE AND SOIL ARE PASTED OVER CONCRETE SIMILAR TO TEXTURE MAPPING IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS .ATURAL MATERIALS ARE USED BUT NATURE IS KEPT AT A DISTANCE !S A RESULT THE NEGATIVE TRAITS THAT CONCRETE INEVITABLY POSSESSES AS A MATERIAL SUCH AS HEAVINESS COLDNESS AND DARKNESS ARE ENHANCED EVEN MORE 7HILE DESIGNING THE 3TONE -USEUM ) LEARNED THAT WE CAN BRING NATURE BACK INTO ARCHITECTURE BY BREAKING DOWN NATURAL MATERIALS INTO SMALLER PARTICLESA METHOD THAT ) CALL iPARTICLIZINGw "Y PARTICLIZING MATERIAL WE CAN ALLOW LIGHT WIND AND SOUND TO PENETRATE FREELY 5SING PARTICLES AS OUR MEDIUM WE CAN UNITE THE +%.'/ +5-!
ENVIRONMENT EFFECTIVELY WITH THE PEOPLE INSIDE ! WOODEN LATTICE WINDOW IN THE WALL OF A TOWNHOUSE IN +YOTO FOR EXAMPLE UNITES THE INSIDE WITH THE OUTSIDE MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN A GLASS WALL WOULD 4O ENABLE THIS TYPE OF UNION WE NEED TO SELECT THE MATERIAL AND THE SIZE OF THE iPARTICLESw CAREFULLY 7E MUST mRST IDENTIFY THE MATERIALS THAT MAKE UP THE ENVIRONMENT AND DETERMINE THEIR SIZE 7HEN WE WEAR CLOTHING MADE OF MATERIALS THAT HAVE THE RIGHT THICKNESS AND ARE PRODUCED WITH THE RIGHT WEAVING METHOD WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE BECOME ONE WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT ,IKEWISE WE MUST CHOOSE THE RIGHT MATERIALS AND SELECT THE CORRECT SIZE OF UNITS WHEN DESIGNING BUILDINGS 7HEN DESIGNING THE MUSEUM ) ALSO ANALYZED THE ACTIVITY OF THE USERS THEIR DISTANCE FROM THE PARTICLES AND THE SPEED OF THEIR ACTIVITY 3OLVING MULTIPLE EQUATIONS SUCH AS THESE HELPS DETERMINE THE IDEAL MATERIAL AND SIZE OF THE PARTICLES 4HE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF ARCHITECTURE ARE NOT ITS PLAN SHAPE OR ELEVATION BUT THE PARTICLES OF WHICH IT IS MADE UP )F WE SUCCEED IN DESIGNING AN APPROPRIATE PARTICLE THE ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT BLEND TOGETHER !S A RESULT ARCHITECTURE MELTS AWAY ) BEGAN TO SEE THE POTENTIAL OF ERASING ARCHITECTURE NOT BY BURYING IT BUT BY CRUSHING IT /NCE THE DESIGN OF THE PARTICLES HAS BEEN SOLVED OTHER ELEMENTS WILL FALL INTO PLACE AUTOMATICALLY 7HILE IN THE PAST THE mRST STEP WAS TO DECIDE ON A PLAN OR FORM BEFORE DETAILS SUCH AS INSIDEOUTSIDE BOUNDARIES WERE CHOSEN NOW THE ORDER OF THIS DESIGN PROCESS HAS BEEN REVERSED 4HE -USEUM OF !NDO (IROSHIGE IN "ATO IS A STRUCTURE ) DESIGNED RELYING FULLY ON THIS TECHNIQUE !NDO (IROSHIGE o WAS ONE OF *APANS LEADING UKIYOE PAINTERS (IROSHIGE TOOK NOTE OF THE PARTICLES THAT CONSTITUTE THE NATURAL WORLD AND IN HIS WORKS SHOWED THE ESSENCE OF NATURE BY LAYERING THE PARTICLES HE OBSERVED (E HAD A TREMENDOUS INnUENCE ON %UROPES )MPRESSIONIST MOVEMENT AND ON &RANK ,LOYD 7RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE ,E #ORBUSIER HOWEVER WHO WAS AT THE CENTER OF MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE BASED HIS DESIGNS ON A DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE APPROACH (IS STRONG VOLUMES OF CONCRETE CONFRONT THEIR ENVIRONMENT WAGING AN ALL OUT WAR ON NATURE 4HE CONTRAST IN WHICH HIS ARCHITECTURE STANDS TO NATURE HAS BECOME THE SOURCE OF ITS BEAUTY 7HAT ) ATTEMPTED TO DO WITH THE (IROSHIGE -USEUM WAS THE EXACT OPPOSITE !VOIDING CONCRETE AS A BUILDING MATERIAL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ) CREATED VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS FROM THE ROOF AND THE WALLS TO THE PARTITIONS AND FURNITURE OUT OF LOUVERS MADE OF CEDAR WOOD GROWN ON THE MOUNTAIN BEHIND THE MUSEUM ) HOPED THAT THE USE OF WOODEN LOUVERS AS PARTICLES WOULD MAKE THE BUILDING BLEND IN WITH THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT THUS ERASING THE ARCHITECTURE ! NEW TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO MAKE THE CEDAR NON nAMMABLE AND A COMPUTER BASED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS MADE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTREMELY THIN LOUVERS POSSIBLE -ODERNISM AIMED AT ACHIEVING ARCHITECTURAL TRANSPARENCY BUT ITS PROPONENTS COULD NOT AVOID CREATING BUILDINGS THAT ARE JUXTAPOSED AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT ,E #ORBUSIERS STRUCTURES ARE BUILT OF CONCRETE WHILE THE TRANSPARENCY THAT -IES VAN DER 2OHE AIMED AT RESULTED IN GLASS OBJECTS THAT CONFRONT NATURE 4RANSPARENCY AS ) SEE IT IS NOT MERELY VISUAL CONTINUITY )T IS A CONDITION IN WHICH THE BUILDING AND THE ENVIRONMENT DISSOLVE INTO ONE "REAKING DOWN ARCHITECTURE AND USING ITS PARTICLES AS A MEDIUM CAN ACHIEVE THIS FUSION (IROSHIGE AND OTHER UKIYOE PAINTERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TAUGHT THEIR 7ESTERN %UROPEAN COUNTERPARTS HOW THIS COULD BE DONE -Y WISH IS TO USE TODAYS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN COMBINATION WITH LOCAL NATURAL MATERIALS TO REVIVE THIS TECHNIQUE IN OTHER WORDS IN MY WORK ) ATTEMPT TO BRIDGE THE TRADITIONAL AND THE INNOVATIVE AS WELL AS THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL
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%!2,9 7/2+3 &2!'-%.4!4)/. 4HE DEVELOPMENT OF +UMAS ARCHITECTURE HAS NEVERTHELESS BEEN ANYTHING BUT DIRECT OR EVEN )NDEED HIS WORK HAS PROGRESSED THROUGH SEVERAL STAGES YIELDING STRIKINGLY DIVERGENT MODES OF DESIGN 3OME OF THE CHANGES IN HIS WORK HAVE BEEN PROMPTED BY THE CHANGING TIMES AND THEIR DIFFERENT CONDITIONS FOR ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION WHILE OTHERS HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF NEW INnUENCES AND +UMAS CONSCIOUS DECISIONS AND SHIFTING VIEWS WITHIN HIS ADVANCEMENT AS AN ARCHITECT 3INCE HIS DEBUT ON THE STAGE OF *APANESE ARCHITECTURE IN THE LATE S HE HAS EXPLORED THE POTENTIAL BENEmTS OF STYLISTIC POSTMODERNISM FRAGMENTARY COMPOSITIONS SUBTERRANEAN CONSTRUCTIONS THE UNCOMMON APPLICATION OF MATERIALS FEATURES OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE VERNACULAR ECOLOGY AND NATURE PHENOMENOLOGY THE USE OF MEDIA AND OTHER DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND THE EVOCATION OF LIGHTNESS TOGETHER WITH ENGENDERING THE VIRTUAL IN ARCHITECTURAL SPACE ! COMMON THEME IN THESE DIVERGENT IDEAS HAS BEEN +UMAS STRONG TENDENCY TOWARD MINIMALISM WITHIN HIS iULTIMATE AIM TO @ERASE ARCHITECTUREw #RITICS LESS FAVORABLY DISPOSED TO THIS CONSTANT CHANGE HAVE CRITICIZED +UMAS ATTITUDE AS MERELY TRYING TO BE ALWAYS POLITICALLY CORRECT OR LACKING PERSONAL CONVICTION AND CONSISTENCY WHEREAS OTHERS HAVE PRAISED HIS ARCHITECTURE AS BEING HIGHLY SENSITIVE AND RESPONSIVE 4HE ISSUE HOWEVER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN THESE TWO EXTREME POSITIONS SUGGEST 7HILE ONE MAY CRITICIZE A FREQUENT AND RUSHED PURSUIT OF CHANGE THAT IS UNDERTAKEN SIMPLY FOR THE SAKE OF NOVELTY IT IS IMPORTANT TO STATE THAT THE MERE FACT OF AN ARCHITECT CHANGING DIRECTIONS OR PURSUING MULTIPLE APPROACHES TO DESIGN SHOULD NOT IN ITSELF BE A REASON FOR CRITICISM 2ATHER IT SHOULD BE THE QUALITY OF THE WORK RESULTING FROM SUCH CHANGES THAT IS THOROUGHLY SCRUTINIZED AND JUDGED IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIETYS NEEDS AND AS TO HOW WELL ITS INVESTED IDEAS BEYOND MEETING THE LOCAL CONDITIONS CAN OBTAIN UNIVERSALITY
)NTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR -ARCH 4OKYO +ENGO +UMA )NTRODUCTION TO THIS BOOK
5PON RETURNING FROM THE 5NITED 3TATES WHERE HE WAS A VISITING SCHOLAR AT #OLUMBIA 5NIVERSITY IN .EW 9ORK FROM TO +UMA ESTABLISHED HIS mRST 4OKYO OFmCE IN !RMED WITH NEWLY ACQUIRED EXPERIENCES ABROAD AND IMMERSED IN 4OKYOS DYNAMIC AND VASTLY POPULAR NEW URBANISM HE LIKE MANY OF HIS PEERS BECAME INTERESTED IN EXPLORING NEW RESPONSES TO THE *APANESE CITY )NTENDING TO DESIGN STRUCTURES THAT mT INTO THE CHAOTIC URBAN ENVIRONMENT HE OPTED FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF FRAGMENTATION )N LIGHT OF THE CONTRASTING WAYS IN WHICH +UMAS ARCHITECTURE HAS BEEN INTERPRETED IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THIS CONCEPT WAS IMMEDIATELY EXPRESSED IN TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE WAYS )N +UMA COMPLETED HIS mRST JOB THE 3MALL "ATH (OUSE IN )ZU WHICH REMAINS ONE OF HIS EARLY REMARKABLE DESIGNS AND WHOSE MANY FEATURES INCLUDING THE USE OF NATURAL MATERIALS SUCH AS WOOD AND BAMBOO WOULD RETURN IN SOME OF HIS LATER BUILDINGS !LTHOUGH NOT AS REmNED AS HIS MORE RECENT WORKS THIS PROJECT COMBINING A PRIVATE RESIDENCE WITH A *APANESE BATH IS AN UNPRETENTIOUS CONSTRUCTION WITH A SPATIAL AND FORMAL COMPOSITION THAT IS AS LIGHT AND REFRESHING AS IT IS NON MONUMENTAL mG
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)T IS PERHAPS NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT TO SAY THAT THIS WORK BY +UMA ECHOES THE SIMILARLY FRAGMENTARY COMPOSITION OF (ARAS mRST WORK THE )TO (OUSE IN -ITAKA FROM ALTHOUGH NO DIRECT INnUENCE CAN BE POINTED OUT +UMAS TWO SUBSEQUENT COMMISSIONS CALLED FOR LARGER PROJECTS IN WHICH HIS STRATEGY OF FRAGMENTATION LED TO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RESULTS "OTH THE $ORIC AND THE - BUILDINGS COMPLETED IN 4OKYO IN EMPLOY OVERSIZED ELEMENTS DERIVED FROM CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ARE EXCEEDINGLY HEAVY AND MONUMENTAL THEY HAVE BEEN SHAPED BY THE OVERLY HISTORICIZING GENRE OF !MERICAN POSTMODERNISM AS DEmNED BY 2OBERT 6ENTURI 2OBERT ! - 3TERN AND -ICHAEL 'RAVES ! RATHER BIZARRE PIECE OF CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE THE - IS ESPECIALLY AND PARADOXICALLY THE ULTIMATE BUILT MONUMENTAL OBJECT THAT +UMA ACCORDING TO HIS OWN CREDO WANTED TO CHALLENGE AND DO AWAY WITH FROM THE OUTSET OF HIS CAREER mG 4HE TWO BUILDINGS REPRESENT A LINE OF ARCHITECTURE IN +UMAS OEUVRE THAT HE FORTUNATELY HAS NOT FOLLOWED EVER SINCE )N FACT HIS WORK SINCE THE EARLY S REVEALS IDEAS THAT STAND IN COMPLETE CONTRAST TO THE MONUMENTAL HISTORICISM THAT SHAPED THESE TWO PROJECTS .OT COUNTING THESE TWO DIVERGENT ARTICULATIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTATION THE mRST MAJOR SHIFT IN +UMAS DESIGNS OCCURRED JUST AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE - "UILDING 4HERE MAY BE SEVERAL REASONS FOR THE TURNAROUND INCLUDING THE PLAUSIBLE ONE THAT +UMA HIMSELF LEARNED A LESSON FROM THE LESS THAN SATISFACTORY RESULTS OF THESE TWO DESIGNS !NOTHER EXPLANATION IS PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT MANY OF THE CHANGES THAT STARTED ANDOR CONTINUED TO TAKE PLACE IN *APAN DURING THE EARLY S WERE A MAJOR IMPETUS FOR +UMA TO PURSUE HIS SEARCH FOR A PARADIGM THAT IS MORE BEmTTING TO CONTEMPORARY *APANA LESS INTRUSIVE BUT MORE nEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE
+UMA DESIGNED THIS BUILDING WITH 3ATOKO 3HINOHARA OF 3PATIAL $ESIGN 3TUDIO +UMA EXPLAINED THAT WHILE HE WAS AT #OLUMBIA 5NIVERSITY i)N !MERICAA #LASSICIST VOCABULARY WAS
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+UMAS DESIGN EXPLORATIONS FOLLOWED ONE ANOTHER IN RAPID SUCCESSION HIS NEW IDEAS OFTEN COMPLEMENTING RATHER THAN REPLACING PREVIOUS ONES 3EVERAL OF HIS DESIGNS WERE REPEATEDLY APPLIED AT DIFFERENT TIMES WITH +UMA ADAPTING THEM TO THE PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH PROJECT -OREOVER MANY OF THESE STRATEGIES BEING INTIMATELY INTERRELATED HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE SAME PROJECT WHILE OTHERS HAVE PROVED TO BE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE (IS GROWING AWARENESS OF AND RESPONSE TO THE LANDSCAPE AND THE SITE FOR EXAMPLE HAVE BEEN ALMOST NATURALLY COUPLED WITH AN INCREASED INTEREST IN NATURE AND NATURAL PHENOMENA !DDRESSING THESE ISSUES IN HIS DESIGNS HAS ALSO TURNED +UMAS ATTENTION TO A NEW NOTION OF iGARDENINGw AND TO THE SIGNImCANCE OF ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE /N THE OTHER HAND HIS SIMPLE AND VERNACULAR INSPIRED DESIGNS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT PRECLUDE THE APPLICATION OF THE LATEST ELECTRONIC AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AS IS THE CASE WITH THE .OH 3TAGE IN THE &OREST OR THE 4AKAYANAGI #OMMUNITY #ENTER TO CITE BUT TWO EXAMPLES %ITHER WAY +UMAS ARCHITECTURE TODAY REnECTS ON AN INCREASINGLY HIGH LEVEL BOTH THE NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE POST BUBBLE ERA IN *APAN
!&4%2 4(% "5"",% .%7 $)2%#4)/.3 4HE BURST OF THE BUBBLE AND THE FOLLOWING LONG LASTING ECONOMIC STAGNATION ONCE AGAIN CHANGED THE STAGE AND THE RULES FOR ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION IN *APAN 4ODAY *APANESE ARCHITECTURE AS WELL AS THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL mNDS ITSELF IN THE PROCESS OF SLOW RECOVERY AND NECESSARY TRANSITION UNDERLINING THE CLOSE RELATION OF ARCHITECTURE TO THE SOCIAL POLITICAL CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC MILIEU IN WHICH IT OPERATES !S OPPOSED TO THE EXCESSIVE EXUBERANCE OF THE S AND EARLY S THAT YIELDED NUMEROUS REVOLUTIONARY DESIGNS THE MORE LIMITED MEANS THE DRASTICALLY REDUCED NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AND THE MUCH CHANGED MORE SOBER ATMOSPHERE IN THE COUNTRY NOW REQUIRE A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE FROM DESIGNERS MORE RESTRAINT AN EMPHASIS ON ECONOMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS A MORE SENSITIVE USE OF THE AVAILABLE AND INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGIES IN ADDITION TO A RESPONSE TO THE NECESSITIES OF THE RAPIDLY UNFOLDING NEW REALITIES IN *APANESE SOCIETY #OINCIDING WITH THESE CONDITIONS IN *APAN IS THE GROWING GLOBAL TREND TO RETURN TO THE MINIMAL AESTHETIC OF EARLY MODERNISM IF NOT TO ITS MONOLITHIC QUALITIES AFTER THE EXHAUSTION OF POSTMODERNISMS OBSESSION WITH THE APPROPRIATION OF REPRESENTATIONAL OR HISTORIC SIGNS IN ARCHITECTURE $RIVEN BY DIFFERENT FORCES AND ASPIRATIONS THE NEW MINIMALISM IS CHARACTERIZED BY LIGHTNESS AND EPHEMERALITY !LL TOLD TODAYS ARCHITECTURE IN *APAN DEVELOPING SUBTLE INNOVATIONS AS IT BUILDS UPON MUCH OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ITS PREDECESSORS IN THE MANNER OF A QUIET EVOLUTION IS LESS REVOLUTIONARY OR SUBVERSIVE AS WAS THE .EW 7AVE MOVEMENT IN THE S
*APANESE SOCIETY TODAY IS UNDERGOING A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION THAT MANY ECONOMISTS SOCIOLOGISTS
POLITICIANS AND OTHERS CONSIDER AS SIGNImCANT AS THE -EIJI RESTORATION AND THE SUBSEQUENT MODERNIZATION OF *APAN )N ADDITION TO THE AFTERMATH OF THE BURST OF THE BUBBLE ALONG WITH THE SHIFT FROM AN INDUSTRIAL TO AN INFORMATION BASED ECONOMY AND THE INROADS OF GLOBALIZATION *APAN IS PLAGUED BY THE INCREASING DISPROPORTION BETWEEN ITS ELDERLY POPULATION AND THE SIMULTANEOUS SHRINKING OF THE BIRTH RATE !LL OF THESE MATTERS HAVE PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS ON ISSUES SUCH AS LABOR CONDITIONS EDUCATION HEALTH CARE CULTURE LIFESTYLES AND ARCHITECTURE
/N THE OTHER HAND THE ONSLAUGHT OF NEW DIGITAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE INVASION OF MEDIA INTO CONTEMPORARY LIFE CONTINUE TO ALTER THE WAYS SPACE IS PERCEIVED USED AND INHABITED )N OTHER WORDS BEYOND THE CHANGING RULES AND MODES OF SOCIAL INTERACTION WITHIN *APANS INFORMATION SOCIETY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT IS CHANGING AS WELL 4HIS IS MOST OBVIOUS IN THE CITIES WHERE MOBILITY AND EPHEMERALITY HAVE EFFECTIVELY REPLACED STABILITY AND PERMANENCE 0EOPLE AS iURBAN NOMADS w ARE CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE WHILE BEING INVOLVED IN SEVERAL ACTIVITIES SIMULTANEOUSLY !T THE SAME TIME THE RELENTLESS TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE URBAN FABRIC ARE POINTING TOWARD A NEW URBANISM THAT CONTINUES TO BE CHAOTIC DEFYING THE PRINCIPLES AND IDEOLOGIES OF MODERNISM 9ET PARADOXICALLY WHILE ARCHITECTUREAS MUCH AS *APANESE SOCIETY ITSELFIS IN NEED OF MORE TRANSPARENCY THE CITY OR THE BUILT LANDSCAPE AT LARGE DRIVEN BY AND OVERSATURATED WITH INFORMATION AND THE MEDIA IS BOTH RESTLESS AND iOVEREXPOSED w AS 0AUL 6IRILIO HAS OBSERVED SEE mG $UE TO THE RAPID PROGRESS AND ADVANCED STATE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES BOUNDARIES IN TODAYS SOCIETY ARE BLURRED AND OFTEN COMPLETELY ERASED 7HILE HIERARCHIES ARE QUESTIONED AND OBLITERATED THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE PRIVATE AND THE PUBLIC IS DISAPPEARING JUST AS MUCH AS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN mGURE AND GROUND WITHIN THE URBAN FABRIC IS RENDERED MEANINGLESS OR MADE IMPOSSIBLE 4HE INSTANTANEITY OF COMMUNICATION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF iOCCUPYINGw A MULTIPLICITY OF SPACES SIMULTANEOUSLY HAVE NOW FURTHER ERODED THE ESTABLISHED SENSE OF REALITY AND THE CONVENTIONAL NOTION OF PLACE )NDEED THE MORE THE ELECTRONIC NETWORK SPREADS ACROSS THE WORLD THE MORE THE CONCEPT OF LOCALITY CHANGES ITS SIGNImCANCE !CCORDINGLY WHAT HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN ACCEPTED AS REALITY IN RELATION TO mCTIONAN ENDURING PREDICTABLE AND VERImABLE STATE OF AFFAIRSHAS TO BE REEVALUATED TODAY IT IS OFTEN IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL APART THE REAL FROM THE VIRTUAL /R ONE MIGHT SAY THE SENSE AND DEmNITION OF THE REAL HAS BEEN AND IS STILL BEING SHIFTED AT A MUCH FASTER PACE THAN EVER BEFORE !RCHITECTS HAVE REACTED TO THESE RAPIDLY UNFOLDING CHANGES AND THE ENSUING CHALLENGES THEY FACE IN DIFFERENT WAYS THUS POLARIZING THE mELD OF ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION /N ONE END ARE THOSE WHO LOOK UPON THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS WITH AN EXPLICITLY NEGATIVE ATTITUDE OR COMPLETE DISREGARD IMMERSED IN A TENACIOUS NOSTALGIA FOR THE PAST ON THE OTHER END ARE THOSE WHO HAVE WHOLEHEARTEDLY BUT UNCRITICALLY EMBRACED THE NOVELTIES THE NEW INFORMATION AGE OFFERS "ETWEEN THESE TWO EXTREMES STANDS A GROWING NUMBER OF
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MANY FACTORS THAT SHAPE EVERYDAY LIFE AND OUR PERCEPTION OF OURSELVES IN IT 7HAT IS DIFFERENT TODAY IS THE COMPLEX NATURE OF THE CONDITIONING FORCES AND THE INCREASINGLY FAST PACE WITH WHICH THEY IMPACT HUMAN LIFE 4RADITIONAL /RIENTAL PHILOSOPHIES INCLUDING "UDDHISM INTERPRETED REALITY AS A NON DUAL CONDITION IN WHICH ALL DISTINCTIONS MERGE !CCORDINGLY IMAGINATION DREAMS AND ALL INTANGIBLE PHENOMENA ARE ALSO PART OF OUR PERCEIVED REALITY
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*APANESE DESIGNERS WHO ACKNOWLEDGE THE INEVITABILITY AS WELL AS THE EMERGING POTENTIALS OF THE NEW STATE OF AFFAIRS IN TODAYS SOCIETY WHILE BEARING IN MIND THE MANY PITFALLS THAT COME WITH ITTHE EASY AND FREQUENTLY CHEAP SEDUCTIONS AND BANALITIES AS WELL AS THE MANY UNCONTROLLED EXCESSES 4HESE ARCHITECTS ACCEPT AS NEW REALITY THE FACT THAT TODAYS SOCIETY OPERATES IN DIFFERENT WAYS AS IT IS SHAPED BY MUCH MORE COMPLEX FORCES THAN BEFORE 4HEY SEEK TO ENGAGE THESE NEW CONDITIONS BY DISCOVERING AND UTILIZING THEIR MEANS IN ARCHITECTURE )N OTHER WORDS THESE ARCHITECTS SHARE IN MORE THAN ONE WAY THE ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS AND PREDICTION OF )GNASI DE 3OLÇ -ORALES WHO WROTE 4HE PLACES OF PRESENT DAY ARCHITECTURE CANNOT REPEAT THE PERMANENCIES PRODUCED BY THE FORCE OF THE 6ITRUVIAN lRMITAS 4HE EFFECTS OF DURATION STABILITY AND DEmANCE OF TIMES PASSING ARE NOW IRRELEVANT 4HE IDEA OF PLACE AS THE CULTIVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ESSENTIAL AND THE PROFOUND OF A GENIUS LOCI IS NO LONGER CREDIBLE IN AN AGE OF AGNOSTICISM IT BECOMES REACTIONARY 9ET THE LOSS OF THESE ILLUSIONS NEED NOT NECESSARILY RESULT IN A NIHILISTIC ARCHITECTURE OF NEGATION &ROM A THOUSAND DIFFERENT SITES THE PRODUCTION OF PLACE CONTINUES TO BE POSSIBLE .OT AS A REVELATION OF SOMETHING EXISTING IN PERMANENCE BUT AS THE PRODUCTION OF AN EVENT
+ENGO +UMA BELONGS TO THIS LATTER GROUP OF ARCHITECTS 2EALIZING THAT THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE INFORMATION AGE AND THE RAPIDLY TRANSFORMING *APANESE SOCIETY CANNOT BE MET BY THE MODERNIST OR POSTMODERNIST PARADIGMS OF ARCHITECTURE +UMA HAS BEEN ADVOCATING NOTHING LESS THAN THE ERASURE OF ARCHITECTURE WITH AND WITHIN HIS WORK 4AKEN AT FACE VALUE SUCH INTENTION WOULD AMOUNT TO AN UTMOST PARADOX IN ORDER TO RENEW OR SAVE ARCHITECTURE IT HAS TO BE DONE AWAY WITH %VEN IF THE STATEMENT IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY AS SURELY IS THE CASE THE QUESTION REMAINS WHAT DOES +UMA MEAN BY iERASINGw ARCHITECTURE OR MORE IMPORTANTLY HOW DOES HE ACHIEVE THIS GOAL IN HIS DESIGNS !S IS EXPECTED +UMAS WORK IN SEARCH FOR A NEW PARADIGM OF PLACE AND ARCHITECTURE PROVIDES US WITH NOT ONE BUT A MULTIPLICITY OF ANSWERS 2EVIEWING THE RESULTS OF HIS - "UILDING +UMA CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT iWHETHER OR NOT A WORK DISAPPEARS DEPENDS NOT ON THE STATE OF CHAOS OF THE WORK IN QUESTION BUT ON THE DIRECTION AND FRAME OF VISION OF THE PERSON DOING THE EXTRACTINGw )N OTHER WORDS ANY PART OF A CONTINUOUSLY CHAOTIC PHENOMENONSUCH AS A BUILDING IN ITS ENVIRONMENTWHEN VIEWED FROM THE POSITION OF AN OUTSIDER IS BOUND TO BE FRAMED OR EXTRACTED AND SO IS TURNED INTO A DISCRETE OBJECT THAT WOULD STAND OUT FROM ITS CONTEXT +UMA SOON REALIZED THAT IT WAS WRONG TO PROCEED WITH THE POSITION OF AN OUTSIDER IN MIND CREATING AN OBJECT AND THEN TRYING TO MAKE IT DISAPPEAR OR BLEND INTO ITS ENVIRONMENT (E COMMENTED UPON THIS WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS i7HEN ) DESIGNED THE
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