“History of The Registered Architects Exams in Japan: Its Trends in Domestic Modern/Contemporary Architecture” (in Japanese) was published in The Journal of Kyoto Arts and Crafts University 3 (2023). Abstract:The Registered Architects Exams (for 1st and 2nd registered architects) in Japan that began in 1951 marked its 72nd year in 2022. It has a history […]
Book review of the Japanese Translation of Mark Wigley’s White Walls, Designer Dress: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (Taku Sakaushi, et al., trs., Kajima Press 2021) is published in the latest issue (March 2023) of Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Japan. (extracted translation from the book review; for full translation click here) […]
My article, “Shibui Katsura: The Emergence of a Japanese Global Icon, 1921-70,” is published in the latest issue (Vol. 82, Issue 1) of Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. ABSTRACT“Katsura is shibui”—this persistent slogan originated in two special issues of House Beautiful published in 1960. Themed “Discover shibui” and “How to be shibui with American things,” these publications linked the […]
An interview with Tadao Ando is featured in the August 2022 issue (“Book as Architecture”) of Journal of Architecture and Building Science. (from the lead text)Tadao Ando is a “self-taught architect” known as a prolific reader.His vast collection of books fills the walls of his office.He also stresses the importance of reading in staff training.In […]
My book, History Builds: John Ruskin and American Architecture 1839-1968, received the AIJ Book Award 2022.https://www.aij.or.jp/eng/prizes/prize/prize22.html From the comment: “…… This is a fascinating book that provides a high-quality intellectual adventure for the general reader as it explores the traces of Ruskin, who reigned but remained absent from the history of modern American architecture. Please […]
The latest issue of Journal of Architecture and Building Science features Sendai Mediatheque (“Sendai Mediatheque: Past 20 Years and Its Future”). An interview with Toyo Ito, the designer of the project, is featured at the beginning of the book (interviewer: Koji Ichikawa and Hiroshi Emoto).http://jabs.aij.or.jp/
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 […]