Goals and objectives | Course Outcomes | |
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1. | Be able to organize and understand various problems in modern society and explain them in relation to architecture. |
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2. | Understand the "vernacular ways in architecture that various communities have, and be able to explain the cases. |
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3. | Understand the relationship between the ecological environment and architecture and explain how to maintain that lasting relationship. |
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4. | Understand the direction of new architectural planning and design suitable for the 21st century and explain how to apply them to modern society. |
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Class schedule | HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) | Amount of Time Required | |
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1. | Lesson 1: Understand the situation surrounding modern architecture What causes the maturation of society, the declining birthrate and aging population, urbanization, etc., and in what direction? What is the current state of vernacular architecture? What does globalization bring? What is architectural practice under glocalization as a counter? |
Confirmation of syllabus and problem | 190分 |
2. | Lesson 2: Understand the process of adapting to the environment How has the dwelling evolved with Life on earth? How are architectural forms created under a particular ecology? |
Prepare for the mode of architecture under various environments | 190分 |
3. | Lesson 3: Architecture from the perspective of the ecosystem How do certain ecosystems relate to building materials? What is the current state of the ecosystem? How are ecosystem changes and architectural changes related? |
Prepare for the relationship between ecosystems and building materials | 190分 |
4. | Lesson 4: Cultural Landscape and Its Availability What is the difference between a cultural landscape and a landscape? What is the relationship between cultural landscapes and livelihoods? What is the cultural landscape crisis and how to solve it? What are some ways to utilize the cultural landscape? |
Prepare for the definition and case studies of cultural landscapes | 190分 |
5. | Lesson application 1: Practical training on ecosystems and architecture | Prepare to investigate the relationship between ecosystems and architecture | 190分 |
6. | Lesson 5: How to sustain a home in an aging society Whereabouts of the elderly What is the relationship between social shrinkage and social aging? What is the method of comprehensive care in the community? What is a nearby residence? What is Aging in Place? |
Find out about community-based comprehensive care, nearby residence, and Aging in Place | 190分 |
7. | Lesson 6: Rethinking the closedness of residence What is the essential meaning of open in living? What is the current significance of living and "opening"? What is an ecomuseum? What are some ways to turn existing culture into tourism resources? What is Living Heritage? |
Prepare for the concept of ecomuseum and living heritage | 190分 |
8. | Lesson 7: Modes of residential culture in modern consumer society What is a myth in a consumer society? What is self-building with bricolage? What is architecture that is not consumed? What is Modernology? |
Prepare for self-building and bricolage | 190分 |
9. | Lesson 8: Architectural theory of illegal residential areas in the city Why was the slum made? Why is the slum not eliminated? What is the culture created inside the slum? What is slum resilience? |
Prepare for illegal residential areas in the world | 190分 |
10. | Lesson 9: Limitations of modern living space from a biological point of view What are the similarities between humans and animals in the sense of space? What is a critical space? What is the difference in sense depending on the sense of distance? What is wild navigation? |
Prepare for Proxemics | 190分 |
11. | Application of lesson 2: Practice of advanced Modernology | Prepare for the methodology of the study | 190分 |
12. | Lesson 10: Solving the pathology of urban dwellings Why is living in a city exhausted? What does it mean to be tamed in a city? What are the techniques for tame the city? |
Think about the meaning of walking in the city | 190分 |
13. | Lesson 11: The future of spatial schema What is the meaning of gathering people? What is the relationship between the center and the periphery in a city? What is the difference between the inner and outer gardens and what does it mean? |
Prepare for hosing gathering theory | 190分 |
14. | Final exam ・ Arrangement of points ・ Arrangement of methodologies ・ Explanation of the answer |
Summarize the lesson content and points | 190分 |
Total. | - | - | 2660分 |
Final exam. | Essay | Total. | |
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1. | 20% | 5% | 25% |
2. | 20% | 10% | 30% |
3. | 20% | 10% | 30% |
4. | 10% | 5% | 15% |
Total. | 70% | 30% | - |
Work experience | Work experience and relevance to the course content if applicable |
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Applicable | Faculty member who has been engaged in practical work specializing in architectural research at the following research institutes
will be in charge of classes. Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes for the Humanities National Museum of Ethnology Core Research Institution Researcher (2001.4-2004.3) Special Visiting Researcher (Faculty of Advanced Human Sciences / Applied Ethnology “Comparative Study on Wooden Building Construction in Southeast Asia” (2012.4-2016.3)) Research Institute for Humanity and Nature Research project "A Trans-Disciplinary Study on the Regional Eco-History in Tropical Monsoon Asia: 1945-2005" (2003.7-2008.3) |