Creating Japanese discursive space: the politics and mythology of tradition and modernity in metabolist proposals

Title: Creating Japanese discursive space: the politics and mythology of tradition and modernity in metabolist proposals
Creator: Mand, Harpeet (Neena)
Relation: Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments [presented in IASTE Working Paper Series, Vol. 240] (Portland, Oregon 04-07 October, 2012) p. 32-43
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2012
Description: This paper proposes that the Metabolists created a discursive space for Japanese architecture through an understanding of western modern as myth making, consequently they bad to mythicize Japanese tradition to propagate their visions of modernity. Metabolist proposals, though positing various methods of accommodating change, were endeavoring to provide a universal as well as proposing particular solutions to the problems of land scarcity, urbanization and the negative impact of modernization on the Japanese environment. This paper provides a close reading of the Metabolist's creation of discursive space in the architectural arena by deploying postcolonial theory.
Subject: architecture; politics; metabolist proposals; urbanization
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336606
Identifier: uon:27659
Language: eng
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