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- Instructor(s)
- Stewart David-Butler
- Class Format
- Lecture
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Intensive ()
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- Course number
- LAW.X323
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2017
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2017/5/12
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- English
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Course description and aims
This seminar in "Modern Japanese Architecture" is based on Tokyo Tech's recently launched MOOC of the same title (edX.org.). Audiovisual materials are divided into six modules, culminating in an interview-based presentation of recent buildings on Tokyo Tech's O-okayama Campus, where students attend classes. [MOOC = Massively Open Online Course]
The MOOC seeks to anchor major developments in design and construction to relevant social and political events of the past century and a half of Japanese history.
Student learning outcomes
Students will learn in part to identify buildings and stylistic trends by period. We shall try to establish criteria for the evaluation of design and construction methods on the part of the Japanese architectural profession from its formation up to the present. Japanese building of the past fifty years has stimulated worldwide interest, and the course is meant to provide a limited investigation of these high-profile architectural developments.
Keywords
architecture, design, construction, urban planning, Meiji/ Taisho/ Showa
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Each class will consist of guided discussion of terminology and issues introduced in online lecture segments assigned as homework. Students should interrogate the course material and provide their own questions, thoughts, and conclusions.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction - A New Style: Meiji-Style Wood and Red Brick Buildings from 1868 | Listen and prepare corresponding MOOC unit lecture segments and online quizzes |
| Class 2 | JAPAN-NESS in Architecture: Its Earliest Origins from the Prehistoric Pit Dwelling to Temples/ Shrines | Idem |
| Class 3 | Post-WWII Modernism: Kenzo Tange, the Influence of Le Corbusier, and the Intervention of Arata Isozaki | Idem |
| Class 4 | Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and Modern NEXT | Idem |
| Class 5 | Tokyo Tech’s C21 Campus: Recent Individual Buildings and a New Comprehensive Plan | Idem |
| Class 6 | What all this means: Student Presentations | PPT |
| Class 7 | What all this means: Student Presentations | PPT |
Textbook(s)
Online link to: ed.X's "Modern Japanese Architecture" (Tokyo TechX, Stewart + Yasuda) at
Reference books, course materials, etc.
David B. Stewart, *The Making of a Modern Japanese Arcchitecture: From the Founders to Kazuo Shinohara and Aratat Isozaki*, Kodansha Int'l., Tokyo and NY, 1987/ 2003.
Prints or online links to relevant monographs or periodical materials
Assessment criteria and methods
NA
Related courses
- NA
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
The course is primarily attended by International Summer School students who would also be pleased to interact with Tokyo Tech students. There is no prior knowledge of architecture required. However, the language of instruction and discussion is English, so any registrant from Tokyo Tech needs to be fairly fluent.
