Michael Lazarin, a professor from Ryukoku University in Kyoto, will give a talk on in-between space of Japanese domestic architecture. The lecture will be on this Tuesday (2/22) instead of Wednesday (2/23) as previously stated in the poster. The room is also changed to room 319.
Michael Lazarin was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1950. As an undergraduate, he was a double major in mechanical engineering and philosophy. He received a Ph.D. from Duquesne University in 1980, with a dissertation on Heidegger and Hölderlin, directed by Father Andre Schuwer. He taught literature and philosophy in China from 1982-84 and since then in Japan. Lazarin teaches Western literature and art history at the undergraduate level at Ryukoku University, a 370 year-old Buddhist university in Kyoto. His graduate seminar is a three-year rotation of Aristotle’s Poetics, Nietzches’s Birth of Tragedy, and Heidegger’s poetics.
Fun talk today, especially if you enjoy hearing about the linguistic diffferences between Japanese and English...consider the importance of 'borrowed landscape' and 'fractal' concepts if you get stuck during your design process. Thoughts on the lecture?
ReplyDeleteIt was quite interesting, using an art terminology, the jo ha kyuu to explain.. all most dictate a space. I think the idea of the extended garden is brilliant but it depends a lot on the context too.
ReplyDeleteYes, of course the physical context determines how a design would borrow the landscape, but the idea one needs to take away is that a site is not isolated or defiant of the surroundings, but instead embracing of it's adjacencies. The proportions of the foreground stones relate to the mountain in the background yet a hedge proves that te garden does not try to pretend to be literally connected to the background. The viewer never believes that the garden was unmanipulated, but the transition between the design and the context is controlled to pay homage to the surrounding landscape. We can dis issore on Monday!
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aj Nilay