Substance and Symbol in Japanese Architecture

Workshop - November 30, 2019
Kyushu University Itō Campus, Jonathan KS Choi Cultural Centre

Which messages were conveyed through building type and formal detail in traditional Japanese timber architecture? Why were some elements continued more or less without changes over centuries while others were dramatically changed or newly introduced within very short periods of time? What can materials and manufacturing technologies tell us about the intentions that shaped specific works of architecture? How were sites and buildings invigorated through human performance? How did these factors change over time? Lastly, how are historical buildings re-read against fundamental changes to the socio-political context?

This workshop sets out to explore these questions. Five speakers will present papers on case studies spanning the Medieval to Modern periods and discussing examples including Zen monasteries, Shinto shrines, and castle donjons.

Funding is provided from the Startup Kakenhi Grant (研究活動スタート支援) for the academic years 2018 to 2019.

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日本の伝統的な建築の様子とデザインはどのようなメッセージを渡したのか？なぜ、ある形は長い時間ぜんぜん変わらず使い続けたのか、他の形は非常に短期間で基礎的に変更しまい、新しく導入されたのか？建築の材料や技法は意味を持っていたか？出来た建築はどのように人間の儀式・パフォーマンスで行かせてしまいましたのか？最後に、これらの建築物は時代を経てどの様に意味が変わって行ったのか？歴史的建造物は、社会政治的背景変更の上で、どう読み直されたのか？

 このワークショップは、これらの質問を探求しようとされます。5人の発表者が、中世から現代までのケーススタディーを発表し、禅僧院、神社、城などの例を中心として議論します。

List of Speakers / 発表者

Nomura Shun’ichi
野村俊一

Associate Professor, Tōhoku University

William Coaldrake ウィリアム・コールドレイク

Project Professor & Visiting Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo
Principal, Coaldrake Consulting

Anton Schweizer アントン シュヴァイツァー

Professor, Kyushu University

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Ran Zwigenberg ラン・ツヴァイゲンバーグ

Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University

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Mark K. Erdmann マークカール　アードマン

Lecturer, University of Melbourne

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