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Columbia University Symposium Announcement
Henry D. Smith II
hds2@columbia.edu
The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
present:
A One-Day Symposium
MODERN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE BEFORE 1945: HOW MODERN? HOW JAPANESE?
DATE: Saturday, March 23, 1996
PLACE: 114 Avery Hall, Columbia University
Ordinary accounts of modern Japanese architecture begin only with
the end of the Pacific War. Individual biographies of such leading
figures as Maekawa Kunio or Tange Kenzo recognize their training and
first designs before the war, but little attention is given to the
interwar period as a complex and formative era in the history of
Japanese architecture. This symposium will gather a number of leading
younger scholars working on the history of Japanese architecture
before World War II, to consider ways of historicizing the abiding
issues of modern Japanese architecture: How modern? How Japanese?
9:00 AM Opening Remarks: Professor Henry Smith, East Asian
Institute
9:15 AM "The Appropriation of Tea in Prewar Japanese
Architecture"
Cherie Wendelken, Asst. Professor of Architecture,
Dept. of Art History, Harvard University
Discussant: Professor Mary McLeod, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
10:00 AM "The Culture of the Culture House: Meanings of Style
in the Taisho Housing Market"
Jordan Sand, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer
Institute, Harvard University
Discussant: Professor William Coaldrake, University of
Melbourne
10:45 AM "Den'enchofu: Building the Garden City in Japan"
Ken Oshima, Monbusho Research Fellow, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Discussant: Professor Gwendolyn Wright, Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
11:45 AM "The Imperial Household Museum in Tokyo: The Search for an
Architectural Representation of the Japanese State"
Yasushi Zenno, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Discussant: Professor Kenneth Frampton, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
12:15 AM "Japan's Imperial Diet Building and the Construction of a
National Identity"
Jonathan Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Art
History, University of Michigan
Discussant: Professor Kenneth Frampton, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
1-3 PM Lunch Break
3-5 PM Round-table discussion on issues raised by the morning
presentations. Those interested in participating are
asked to pre-register with the Donald Keene Center,
212-854-5036.
For further details on the program, please contact
the Donald Keene Center, 212-854-5036
Posted by Henry D. Smith II
East Asian Institute
Columbia University
hds2@columbia.edu
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