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I went to Professor Dana Buntrock's lecture, "Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today" at the Institute for East Asian Studies yesterday. The lecture was an extended preview of Buntrock's new book of the same name, and it was excellent; I really want to read the book.
Prof. Buntrock talked principally about what she, following Fujimori Teranobu, calls the "red school" of contemporary Japanese architecture and which includes people like Fujimori, Andô Tadao (my personal favorite, partly because of them all he's the one whose works I've seen the most of), and Kuma Kengo. These architects have embraced the decaying, the whimsical, the traditional and the difficult in their attempts to bring both the pleasure principle and the sensuality of buildings back into the contemporary discussion, and they and their works are fascinating. And I also now have many more places to visit when I go back to Japan, particularly Kompira Shrine, the Ramune Onsen, and the Suntory Museum of Art.
Prof. Buntrock talked principally about what she, following Fujimori Teranobu, calls the "red school" of contemporary Japanese architecture and which includes people like Fujimori, Andô Tadao (my personal favorite, partly because of them all he's the one whose works I've seen the most of), and Kuma Kengo. These architects have embraced the decaying, the whimsical, the traditional and the difficult in their attempts to bring both the pleasure principle and the sensuality of buildings back into the contemporary discussion, and they and their works are fascinating. And I also now have many more places to visit when I go back to Japan, particularly Kompira Shrine, the Ramune Onsen, and the Suntory Museum of Art.