Guest-edited by: Hitoshi Abe, Tohru Horiguchi, Shunsuke Kurakata, Osamu Tsukihashi
Since antiquity, Japanese architecture has expressed a profound interdependence with nature. Throughout history, recurring natural disasters have shaped this orientation, compelling architecture to seek not dominance over the environment, but coexistence with it. This issue of AD examines how that sensibility endures today—manifesting in diverse approaches that redefine what it means for architecture to be ecological, responsive, and culturally grounded. Emerging from the dual pressures of environmental volatility and prolonged economic stagnation, contemporary Japanese practice has generated a renewed creativity, one that transforms constraint into invention and reimagines architecture’s pact with the natural world.
CONTRIBUTORS
Jun Aoki, Ryuichi Ashizawa, Shigeru Ban (Text by Souhei Imamura), Sou Fujimoto, Go Hasegawa, Akihisa Hirata, Junya Ishigami (Text by Taro Igarashi), Toyo Ito, Shunsuke Kurakata, Hiroshi Nakamura, Ryue Nishizawa (Text by Yuki Hyakuda), Yasuaki Onoda, Kiyoaki Takeda, Ippei Takahashi, Keisuke Toyoda, Eri Tsugawa, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Shigenori Uoya, Suzuko Yamada
Guest-edited by: Hitoshi Abe, Tohru Horiguchi, Shunsuke Kurakata, Osamu Tsukihashi
Since antiquity, Japanese architecture has expressed a profound interdependence with nature. Throughout history, recurring natural disasters have shaped this orientation, compelling architecture to seek not dominance over the environment, but coexistence with it. This issue of AD examines how that sensibility endures today—manifesting in diverse approaches that redefine what it means for architecture to be ecological, responsive, and culturally grounded. Emerging from the dual pressures of environmental volatility and prolonged economic stagnation, contemporary Japanese practice has generated a renewed creativity, one that transforms constraint into invention and reimagines architecture’s pact with the natural world.
CONTRIBUTORS
Jun Aoki, Ryuichi Ashizawa, Shigeru Ban (Text by Souhei Imamura), Sou Fujimoto, Go Hasegawa, Akihisa Hirata, Junya Ishigami (Text by Taro Igarashi), Toyo Ito, Shunsuke Kurakata, Hiroshi Nakamura, Ryue Nishizawa (Text by Yuki Hyakuda), Yasuaki Onoda, Kiyoaki Takeda, Ippei Takahashi, Keisuke Toyoda, Eri Tsugawa, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Shigenori Uoya, Suzuko Yamada
