Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban on His Refugee Relief Actions
Japan Story
Reimagining
the
urban
realm
Featured Posts
Kumiko Inui
Portraits of Landscapes—Part 1
Japan Story Team
Reclaimed Land: Waterfront as Tabula Rasa
Banana Yoshimoto
Moshi Moshi, Shimokitazawa
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese Urban Space
Chapter III: Methods of Spatial Composition
Fumihiko Maki
Small Is the Key: Fumihiko Maki on the Urbanism of Tokyo
Harvard GSD Seminar, Autumn 2020
The Project and the Territory
Japan Story Team
The Japanese Boulevard
Yoshikazu Nango
Solitude as a Hinge
Harvard GSD Studio, Spring 2021
Fudo/Umwelt: Devising Transformative Environments in Japan
Karlheinz Stockhausen
KURZWELLEN / SHORT WAVES
Itsuko Hasegawa
My New Challenges in Pursuing the Architect’s Mission
Yoshinori Hiroi
Designing for an Aging, Depopulating Society
Moshe Safdie
Collective Habitation, Reinvented
Introduction
The Urban Milieu: Japan
The city is the site of a multitude of forces and desires. How are these forces manifested, inscribed on the surface of the territory? How are the stories of desires and disappointments told? What are the relations between the physical and social worlds? It is with these questions that Japan Story explores the physical and social transformations of Japanese urbanization.
Categories
学術
Pedagogy
Cutting-edge themes in Japanese urbanism, explored in seminars and studios at the GSD. Although the research is country-specific, it holds wider implications for contemporary urbanization globally
対話
In Conversation
Mohsen Mostafavi discusses contemporary urbanism with an array of thinkers: architects, urban designers, photographers, novelists, artists, and scholars
図解
Research Drawings
Researchers analyze the urban morphology of Japanese cities and make speculations about future patterns of urbanization
訳文
In Translation
A selection of essential thought in Japanese publications that has maintained influence domestically now made available in English for the first time
著作
Writings
The city doesn’t only exist in space; it also lives vibrantly in the mind. Through the written word, we can visit infinite places: imagined, projected, portrayed, or recollected
視覚文化
Visual Culture
Photography, art, film, manga, drawings—Japanese visual culture in various forms is discussed in relation to urbanism
視点
Perspectives
Opinions, proposals, and recommendations related to the urban condition of Japan and beyond
音
Audio
Japan Story also lends its ear to sounds that take you back to a specific place and moment in time…
