The result of the competition “Words to Capture the Architecture of the 2020s” by the Architectural Design Association of Nippon (ADAN) is announced.I contributed an entry like science fiction on the theme of “History of Western Architecture” (in Japanese).http://www.adan.or.jp/info/3321

I contributed an article “Flying Around Building Sites” to the December issue of UP (the bulletin of University of Tokyo Press) as the ninth in a series of relay essays “On Receiving the University of Tokyo’s Nambara Shigeru Publication Prize.”It explains the context in which I moved from the history of Ruskin’s reception to the […]

The poster session “Brutal Act of Time: Brutalism in Japan from Within and Without” for the 16th International Docomomo Conference (August 29-September 2, 2021) is now available.It traces the process by which the British “New Brutalism” was read into the world history term “Brutalism” in the 1950s and 60s.

“Japonica in Architecture: Origin and Semantic Pluralism” is published in JTLA (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo, Aesthetics) 45. Full text is available.

“THE MODERNITY OF THE KATSURA IMPERIAL VILLA : A global history of its myth-making“ is released in Transactions of JIA (Vol. 86, Issue 781, pp. 1115-1122; in Japanese: abstract and synopsis in English).

HINO Naohiko, EMOTO Hiroshi, “Conversation on ‘New Normal’ in the Coming 80 Years” is now published! (in Japanese)https://www.ga-ada.co.jp/english/ga_japan/gaj169.html

The translation of the article for Kenchiku Toron web’s “5 selected simple questions and their straightforward extremist answers” is now available. >> Question 2: Perhaps Only the Future Will Know What It Is to ‘Make an Epoch’?

Contribution to Kenchiku Toron web’s “5 selected simple questions and their straightforward extremist answers.” (published 10 December 2020; Japanese)

A book review for the special issue of Gendai Shisō for Arata Isozaki is published!

“History’s Ground Zero: Genethliacon to/from John Ruskin” was published in Journal of Architecture and Building Science (March 2020).