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Examine how architecture reflects Japan’s history, starting with its emergence as a new nation in the 19th century and the building of the Western-style capital city of Tokyo on the foundations of Edo. New building materials and construction methods reflected changing times, and the radical contrast between tradition and modernism. In this course, we’ll present an interview-based case study titled “Exploring Tokyo Tech’s Twenty-First Century O-okayama Campus.”
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Course Curriculum
| Welcome to our MOOC | |||
| Opening Dialogue between Instructors | 00:06:00 | ||
| Week 1 : Meiji-Style Wood and Red Brick Buildings from 1868 Onward | |||
| Ending Japan’s Seclusion | 00:12:00 | ||
| Part 1: Introduction | 00:06:00 | ||
| Part 2: The Treaty Ports” Presented by TA’s | 00:21:00 | ||
| Part 1: The Osaka Mint | 00:10:00 | ||
| Part 2: The Takebashi Barracks and Ginza Bricktown | 00:08:00 | ||
| Giyōfū Builders in the First Decade of Meiji | 00:21:00 | ||
| Part 1: Josiah Conder’s Message of Academic Eclecticism | 00:17:00 | ||
| Part 2: Kingo Tatsuno’s Bank of Japan and Tokyo Station | 00:14:00 | ||
| Week 2 : JAPAN-NESS in Architecture: Its Earliest Origins | |||
| Part 1 : Four Building Categories | 00:09:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Ancient Jōmon Period Pit Dwellings | 00:05:00 | ||
| MA: Space-Time in Architecture and Late Modernism | 00:17:00 | ||
| The Big Contingency: Earthquake | 00:12:00 | ||
| Part 1: Shinto Shrines | 00:18:00 | ||
| Part 2: Buddhist Temples | 00:10:00 | ||
| Part 1 : Background and Intentions | 00:11:00 | ||
| Part 2 : The Villa Itself | 00:10:00 | ||
| Sukiya: Legacy in Form and Approach | 00:12:00 | ||
| Week 3 : The First Japanese Versions of International Style Modernism | |||
| Part 1 : A New “Taisho Democracy” | 00:07:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Tokyo-Taisho Exhibition (1914) | 00:05:00 | ||
| Part 3 : City Planning, Transport, and Modanizmu | 00:08:00 | ||
| Part 1: Japanese Secession Tuned to Art for Art’s Sake | 00:06:00 | ||
| Part 2: The Persistent Lyricism of Mamoru Yamada | 00:10:00 | ||
| The Imperial Crown Style | 00:10:00 | ||
| Public Buildings and Rationalism during Early Showa (1926-45) | 00:14:00 | ||
| Part 1 : The Private Town Dwelling | 00:12:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Semipublic and Private Urban Collective Housing Types | 00:12:00 | ||
| Week 4 : Postwar Modernism: Kenzo Tange and the Influence of Le Corbusier | |||
| Part 1 : Le Corbusier’s Late Style and Japan | 00:09:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Tange and the “Genius of Michelangelo” | 00:15:00 | ||
| Part 1 : The Role of Kenzo Tange | 00:18:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Metabolism as a Younger Guard | 00:08:00 | ||
| Part 1 : The Japanese Architect as Intellectual | 00:15:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Enter Arata Isozaki and the Immanent Destruction of Architecture | 00:08:00 | ||
| Week 5 : Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and the Modern NEXT | |||
| Part 1 : The Japanese Tradition Debate and the Case Study House Movement: Abstraction and Intellectualization | 00:14:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Shinohara’s Early First Style | 00:13:00 | ||
| Part 1: House in White | 00:09:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Representative Labyrinths, Stairs, and Crevices of Shinohara’s Second Style | 00:09:00 | ||
| Part 1: The Tanikawa House as Game Changer | 00:10:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Savagery and Sachlichkeit | 00:16:00 | ||
| Part 1 : Evolution of Shinohara’s Four Styles | 00:11:00 | ||
| Part 2 : Disjunction and the Fourth Style | 00:04:00 | ||
| Part 3 : Genealogy of the House in Yokohama and the Tokyo Tech Centennial Hall | 00:09:00 | ||
| Part 4 : Tokyo Tech Centennial Hall | 00:12:00 | ||
| Week 6 : Students and Architects Explore Tokyo Tech’s C21 Campus | |||
| Shin-ichi Okuyama: When Contextual Isn’t the Answer… | 00:44:00 | ||
| Part 1 (A): Expressing User Behavior (ELSI) | 00:26:00 | ||
| Part 1 (B): Expressing User Behavior (ELSI) | 00:22:00 | ||
| Part 2: Aiming for Energy Self-Sufficiency (EEI) | 00:20:00 | ||
| Koichi Yasuda and Toru Takeuchi: Tokyo Tech Library (aka The Cheesecake) | 00:25:00 | ||
| Part 1: Shaping Past and Future at Tokyo Tech | 00:15:00 | ||
| Part 2: Open Campus Equals Science Park? | 00:23:00 | ||
| Part 3: Seismic Retrofit and Keeping Options Open | 00:14:00 | ||
| Part 4: Give and Take in Design and Structure | 00:12:00 | ||
| Part 5: Continuity through a Line of Descent | 00:18:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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