Adam brothers: architects of the age of the enlightenment

This thesis investigates the architectural responses to the Enlightenment in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century and, in particular on the profound interrelation between the empirical ideas of the Enlightenment and the development of contemporary British architecture. The focus is on Robert and James Adam, whose works in architecture and theory consistently reflected the intellectual development of their age. This thesis will propose a new interpretation of the Adam brothers as revolutionary students and masters of Enlightenment ideas in the field of architecture

Design and Social Conscience : Nikolaus Pevsner’s Ethics of Design in the 1930s

Partly due to his early political naïvete, which later often led to him being mistakenly accused of being pro-Nazi, Nikolaus Pevsner, a German-born Russian Jew, expressed on multiple occasions, as far back as the early 1930s, a positive view of National Socialism, as he had initially been caught up by the idea that National Socialists could effect positive changes in design enterprises in post-World War I Germany that would ultimately solve problems such as shortage of housing, improved living conditions for ordinary people, etc. At the same time that Pevsner was stating his overly optimistic view he began to concern himself with the importance of the ethics of design in contributing to the task of improving living conditions and fulfilling practical, everyday needs. Through an examination of Pevsner’s lecture ‘Post-War Tendencies in German Art Schools’, delivered at the Royal Society of Arts in London in December 1935 and published the following month in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, this paper intends to explore the ways in which Pevsner’s concern for 1) ‘sound’ art and design capable of serving the community and 2) art/design education, ‘constructive and representative of the contemporary age’, was to germinate in the mid-1930s and subsequently develop into his principle of the ethics of design.Theme II : Design Philosoph

Scottish Challenge in Design Education : The Trustees Drawing Academy’s Pedagogical Vision for Post-Union Scotland

In the mid-eighteenth century, Edinburgh was confronted with an increase in population and an indication of new prosperity connected to social and economic, as well as cultural and aesthetic, progress. The Union of 1707 between the Scottish and English Parliaments was partly responsible for this social-cultural boom. With the emergence of new money and social demands, Edinburgh was in a position to finally begin improving arts, sciences, manufacturing, industry, and living conditions in Scotland. The improvement of Scottish industry and manufacturing became one of the major issues tackled by the leading circles of Scottish society, which led to the opening of the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh, the first publicly founded School of Design in Great Britain, in 1760. The aim of the Academy was to provide practical instruction under the guidance of experienced masters to fellow Scots who hoped to get a proper education in artistic skills and abilities for utilitarian arts in order to contribute, as a ‘designer’, to the advancement of Scottish industry and manufacturing.Theme I : Design Theories and Ideas in Europ

Nikolaus Pevsner : Talking Industrial Design to the Workers’ Educational Association

英語発表要旨第59回大会（2017年8月9日～10日　於：秋田市にぎわい交流館