Course title
S0434000,S04340023
Architectural works in Japanese modern period

NISHIZAWA Taira
Middle-level Diploma Policy (mDP)
Program / Major mDP Goals
Department of Architecture 1. 1.人々の生活や社会の発展に寄与する建築文化を創造するための教養や思考力を身につけ、建築の技術や方法論を適切に使うことができる
Department of Architecture 4. 4.建築設計や建築技術に関する体系的な専門知識を身につけ、それらを応用することができる
Purpose of class
to know the thoughts, from which the legendary architectural works derived.
Course description
This course gives a guidance to students how to see the legendary architectural works from a certain point of view ; not from the ”outside” but the ”inside” view of each architect’s under creation, from which he/she could reach at the legendary works. It is also a guidance to understand that the process of architectural design is to create building without precedent, so-called ”to leap in the darkness”, in order to make the advent of unknown architecture be risen up.
Every week one architect in modern period will be focused on by tutor’s lecture, and 8 architects will be lectured in total ; such as Corbusier, Mies, Tange, Shinohara and so on. Besides, 5 of them, so-called ”professor-architect”, will be tasted again by students’ day-works ; such as writing a report paper, making a sketch or small design work, of which all had been presented by 5 architects to students at each university in the past.
Goals and objectives
  1. to be able to find out the method on the legendary architectural works, and to turn it available for students’s design work.
  2. to be able to realize a connection with architects in the past, 20th century.
  3. to be able to point out which part of a building today came from the previous work.
  4. to be able to make judgement on each architect’s thoughts in the past and today.
Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

day-work in 5 times Total.
1. 20% 20%
2. 20% 20%
3. 20% 20%
4. 20% 20%
5. 20% 20%
Total. 100% -
Evaluation method and criteria
the day-works in 5 times are evaluated equally.
the score consist of the concept 60% and the completeness 40%,
Language
Japanese
Class schedule

Class schedule HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) Amount of Time Required
1. lecture 1 ; how to make ”modern architecture” in general. back numbers of an architectural magazine ; ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1990’s 40minutes
2. lecture 2 ; Le Corbusier monograph of Le Corbusier 60minutes
3. lecture 3 ; Mies monograph of Mies vd Rohe 60minutes
4. lecture 4 ; Kenzo TANGE the first publishing just after the completion of Tange’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1960’s 50minutes
5. day-work 1 ; by TANGE (at Tokyo University in 1950’s) the first publishing just after the completion of Tange’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1960’s 10minutes
6. lecture 5 ; Kiyoshi SEIKE the first publishing just after the completion of Seike’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1970’s 50minutes
7. day-work 2 ; by SEIKE (at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1960’s) the first publishing just after the completion of Seike’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1970’s 10minutes
8. lecture 6 ; Takamasa YOSHISAKA the first publishing just after the completion of Yoshisaka’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1970’s 50minutes
9. day-work 3 ; by YOSHISAKA (at Waseda University in 1960’s) the first publishing just after the completion of Yoshisaka’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1970’s 10minutes
10. lecture 7 ; Kiyonori KIKUTAKE the first publishing just after the completion of Kikutake’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1970’s 60minutes
11. lecture 8 ; Kazuo SHINOHARA the first publishing just after the completion of Shinohara’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1980’s 50minutes
12. day-work 4 ; by SHINOHARA (at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1970’s) the first publishing just after the completion of Shinohara’s works in ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1980’s 10minutes
13. lecture 9 ; Shiro KURAMATA the first publishing just after the completion of Kuramata’s works in ”Japan Interior” in 1960’s〜1980’s, or in ”Domus” in 1970 50minutes
14. day-work 5 ; by KURAMATA (at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1980’s) the first publishing just after the completion of Kuramata’s works in ”Japan Interior” in 1960’s〜1980’s, or in ”Domus” in 1970 10minutes
Total. - - 520minutes
Feedback on exams, assignments, etc.
ways of feedback specific contents about "Other"
Feedback outside of the class (ScombZ, mail, etc.)
Textbooks and reference materials
back numbers of an architectural magazine ; ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1990’s,
and the monograph of each architect on lecture2~lecture9.
Prerequisites
to prepare white papers, A3 format, for day-work.
to read the back numbers of an architectural magazine ; ”Shinkenchiku” in 1950’s〜1990’s.
Office hours and How to contact professors for questions
  • just after the class
Regionally-oriented
Regionally-oriented course
Development of social and professional independence
  • Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
Active-learning course
About half of the classes are interactive
Course by professor with work experience
Work experience Work experience and relevance to the course content if applicable
Applicable in the class all discourse by tutor will be the same as the one between professional architects at work. It is slightly but definitely different from the general discourse between the persons who haven’t designed real buildings.
Education related SDGs:the Sustainable Development Goals
  • 4.QUALITY EDUCATION
  • 12.RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION
  • 16.PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
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