The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture by Christopher Mead

The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture by Christopher Mead

Traditional thought fused with modern science when Hiroshima’s nuclear annihilation on August 6, 1945, proved the interdependence of space and time. Since the war, Japanese architects have probed the relativity of spacetime through critical debates, pivotal theories, and consequential buildings. The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture pushes past clichés of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenisation than one of cultural invention. The realisation that buildings are dynamic events — phenomena of space-in-time, not inert objects outside time — continues to inform Japanese architecture and suggests how we can rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.

Christopher Mead is a Regents’ Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. The author of multiple books on modern architecture and urbanism, he began his study of the hypospace of Japanese architecture.

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ISBN 13	9781957183350
ISBN 10	1957183357
Title	The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture
Author	Christopher Mead
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oro Editions
Year published	2024-05-08
Number of pages	784
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