Project description
A new era of unbiased architectural narratives
Breaking from the constraints of conventional architectural history, researchers are rewriting the narrative by focusing on the fascinating intersections of diverse architectural cultures. To do so, they are focusing on the concept of ‘contact zones’ where different cultures meet and influence one another. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SKRDC project will challenge the static nature of chronological periods and fixed categories. At the heart of this investigation lies the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, an international housing idea competition hosted by the Japanese magazine Shinkenchiku since 1965. By analysing competition briefs, winning entries, and judges’ remarks, the project aims to reveal the reciprocal transfer of architectural knowledge and its impact on global debates.
Objective
To open up new lines of inquiry for the writing of architecture history currently caught up in ‘static’ chronological periods, geographic preferences, heroic figures, aesthetic styles, and fixed gender categories, it is necessary to introduce an entirely new analytical research methodology to the field of architecture. This project investigates the possibilities of such alternative approach by organizing history around complex cross-cultural exchanges, or “contact zones”, between different architecture cultures. To elucidate the potentials of such social spaces ‘where different cultures meet and inform each other’, I focus on an unprecedented example in architecture culture where “East” and “West” meet: The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (SKRDC). SKRDC is an international housing idea competition organized by the Japanese architecture magazine Shinkenchiku since 1965. Through not only studying the competition briefs of the past 52 years, the characteristics of the winning entries and multiple honourable mentions and the judges’ final remarks, but also the difference in nuance between the Japanese and English debates resulting from the actual design proposals as well as the wider ‘aftereffects’ disseminating into both Japanese as well as English literature, I trace the reciprocal transfer of architectural knowledge and how that affected larger local and international architectural debates. While the SKRDC here serves as a qualitative case study to develop and test my analytical research method, the larger aim of this study is to construct a new historical narrative. By applying the analytical model to different architectural contact zones around the globe, I foresee to contribute to the rewriting of the history of modern architecture into a more inclusive and unbiased “cross history”, which is non-static and interdisciplinary in character and includes hitherto underrepresented aspects such gender dimensions.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
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8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
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