Architecture or Revolution
This talk will discuss Japanese architecture during the 1960s and 1970s, placing it within a wider cultural context of art, technology, literature, and politics. Whereas the 1960s was a period of totalizing urban visions predicated on the need to rebuild Japan’s war-devastated cities and the availability of seemingly unlimited resources to do so, the economic downturn of the 1970s, exacerbated by escalating environmental damage and grassroots political protests, split the Japanese architectural world into innumerable personal obsessions. In concrete terms, this was a shift from envisioning vast urban plans to creating introverted private houses, from the imitation of the language of Western modernism to the study of non-Western vernaculars, from the ruthless demolition of historical urban fabric to the collection and documentation of overlooked buildings and objects, from rigid authorial control of cities and buildings to user participation in the design process, from industrialized prefabrication to ad hoc self-build projects, from strident manifestos to a proliferation of iconoclastic ‘alternative’ publications, from the rationalization of society and industry to the celebration of difference and idiosyncrasy.

建築或革命

本講座將討論二十世紀六十年代和七十年代的日本建築，除建築層面外，將深入其藝術、科技、文學和政治等方面。二十世紀六十年代日本在急需重建戰時被破壞的城市的前提下，經歷了擁有美好的城市願景而似乎也有無限資源去支援。直到七十年代，經濟倒退，在不斷升級的環境破壞和基層政治抗議下，日本的建築世界分裂成無數個人的負擔。具體而言，這時代的改變，是從總體的都市規劃轉變成個人住宅，從模仿西方現代化到研究非西方的通俗性，從無情被拆掉的房子瓦礫中紀錄被忽視的房子和物件，從嚴謹的房子和城市建築權轉成讓用戶親自參與設計過程；從工業化的預加工變到零碎自製用品，從尖銳刺耳的言語到反傳統的“另類”刊物，從社會和工業的團體性轉化成紀念差異和個人的特質。

Thomas Daniell is currently head of the Department of Architecture and Design at the University of St. Joseph, Macau, prior to which he spent twenty years as a practicing architect in Japan. He holds a BArch from Victoria University of Wellington, an MEng from Kyoto University, and a PhD from RMIT University. A two-time recipient of publication grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, he is author of FOBA: Buildings (2005), After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan (2008), Houses and Gardens of Kyoto (2010), and Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama + Amorphe (2011), as well as editor of Toyo Ito's Tarzans in the Media Forest (2011). His book An Anatomy of Influence is forthcoming from AA Publications. In 2014, he was awarded second place in the Geert Bekaert Prize for Architectural Criticism and received a commendation in the CICA (International Committee of Architectural Critics) Pierre Vago Award.

Thomas Daniell目前擔任澳門聖若瑟大學建築設計學院院長，此前他曾在日本擔任建築師達二十年。威靈頓維多利亞大學建築學士、京都大學工程碩士和墨爾本皇家理工大學博士。兩度獲得格雷姆基金會的美術研究出版獎，著有書目包括《FOBA：建築》（2005），《破壞之後：日本經濟泡沫後的建築》（2008），《京都房子和花園》（2010）和 《竹山聖＋Amorphe》（2011），編有《伊東豐雄的泰山瞑想之森》（2011）。他的新書《影響的剖析》將由建築學會出版社出版。2014年他獲得貝克特建築評論獎第二名和國際建築評論委員會中瓦戈獎的嘉許。