Liquid Space - The Volatility of Japanese Architecture

Liquid Space - The Volatility of Japanese Architecture
  • A lecture in GERMAN by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schneider
  • Thursday, May 29, 3:00 p.m. Mousonturm Studio 1
  • Entrance free

Few other countries suffer so much from natural disasters as Japan. Still, the Japanese population recovers from these strokes of fate with an astonishing tenaciousness. One reason for this might be found in the traditional Japanese notion of architecture. Professor Ulrich Schneider, former director of the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main, shows how the understanding of the flexibility and transcience of buildings influences the concepts of construction and the “material ethos” of contemporary Japanese architecture: construction is rapid and adapted to changing needs.

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