Nowoczesność i tradycja w architekturze współczesnej Japonii. Trzy przykłady postaw twórczych: Kenzō Tange, Arata Isozaki, Kengo Kuma

Krzysztof Ingarden

doi:10.23858/JUE20.2022.007

Published: 2022-12-14

Vol. 20 (2022)

Modernity and tradition in the architecture of contemporary Japan. Three examples of creative approaches: Kenzō Tange, Arata Isozaki, Kengo Kuma

prof. KAAFM dr hab. inż., arch. Krzysztof Ingarden

Journal of Urban Ethnology

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE20.2022.007

Abstract

The prominent architect Arata Isozaki claims Japanese architecture can only be understood as a mediation process between modernization and tradition. The article aims to present the conditions of this process in the development of Japanese architecture, as well as urban planning ideas proposed by selected Japanese architects active after World War II.
The first generation of post-war Japanese architects favored the acceptance of a neutral and ahistoric international style; however, this stylistic was supplemented with threads of Japanese tradition. The following years were an attempt to assimilate Western ideas of postmodernism, which were also reflected in the mirror of the Japanese tradition. The generation of the globalization era rejected the language of postmodernism and, searching for its own creative path, often found inspiration in the native tradition. Each generation adapted external patterns to the nature of its own building and cultural tradition, which is illustrated by examples of the work of three architects: Kenzō Tange, Arata Isozaki and Kengo Kuma.

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Japanese architecture, urbanism, Kenzō Tange, Arata Isozaki, Kengo Kuma

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Ingarden, K. (2022). Modernity and tradition in the architecture of contemporary Japan. Three examples of creative approaches: Kenzō Tange, Arata Isozaki, Kengo Kuma. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 20, 109–135. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE20.2022.007

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