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Space Without Substance: The Drawing of the Material in the Work of Modern Architects in Japan - Kazuo Shinohara, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA)

2020; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-47983-1_40

2661-8192

Ángel Allepuz Pedreño,

Art, Politics, and Modernism

Japan has developed its own idea of modernity outside of the Western model. To talk about contemporary Japanese architecture is like talking about domestic architecture. Based on this architecture with popular origin, Kazuo Shinohara will set a critical differentiation from the idea of space that prevailed in modern western architecture. We owe Shinohara the denial of the idea of space understood as an architectural substance and raw material, overall, not comparable to the idea of emptiness typical of Japanese culture. This would explain, in our opinion, not only the conception of the relationship between structure, form and space, but also a way of drawing architecture in Japan. In our judgement, the way in which specific contemporary Japanese architects draw, such as Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima or Atelier Bow-Wow, has its origin in the way of drawing of Shinohara, whose teaching, based on his conception of the idea of space and its relation to matter, extends up today.