Harvard GSD Studio, Spring 2024
Rethinking Metabolic Rift
Japan Story
Reimagining
the
urban
realm
Featured Posts
Giovanna Borasi, Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota
Alone Again, Or: Two projects exploring life in Tokyo’s evolving fabric
Matthew Gandy
Geography’s Material and Intellectual Transformations
Hiroko Akiyama
Taking Action for a Super-Elderly Society
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
Japan Story Team
The Japanese Boulevard
Yoshikazu Nango
Solitude as a Hinge
Karlheinz Stockhausen
KURZWELLEN / SHORT WAVES
Yoshinori Hiroi
Designing for an Aging, Depopulating Society
Harvard GSD Studio, Spring 2022
Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World
Kumiko Inui
Portraits of Landscapes—Part 1
Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban on His Refugee Relief Actions
Kengo Kuma
A New Agenda for Architecture
Harvard GSD Studio, Spring 2023
Revitalizing Onomichi: Architecture, Community, Territory
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…
