A Meaning of Baroque in terms of Space Syntax

A city is a spatial system that is generated in the process of searching for an ideal form. From the structure of a city, we can find paradigms of the past in which worldviews of the society are instilled. Baroque, to be studied in this paper, is interpreted as a change from ′limitation′ to ′infinity′. There are many studies that investigated Baroque but they see the change from a single viewpoint of either cosmology or practicality. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to combine these two viewpoints for a comprehensive understanding of what paradigm has formed Baroque cities. Practicality is revealed by means of Space Syntax and our new concept, Urban Entropy Coefficient (: UEC), which is then related to cosmology. We conclude that the intention of Baroque was to configure a Multi-Center layout for the dynamic function of the city

Tadao Ando. : Buildings projects writings

Berlin248 p.; 26 cm

Tadao Ando : the geometry of human space

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Distilling “Urban Kernel” from the Revival Processes from War Damages in Japanese Local Cities

In 2011, Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake attacked Japan and the Tsunami destroyed a number of cities completely. After 2 years, the way of revival are discussed right now. In the process, how the community can be reproduced becomes hot issue. The city vanished instantly, therefore, they need to reproduce not only buildings but also lifestyles. However, this is not first experience for Japanese. The war damage revivals were carried out after WWII. The purpose of this study is to investigate the revival processes from war damage in Japanese local cities and reveal the "Urban Kernel" from them. Urban Kernel is an implicit norm to reproduce urban fabric. By using this concept, an alternative viewpoint in city planning would be shown

The Significance of Modern Japanese City Planning: a morphological examination of the land readjustment projects in Korea, Taiwan and Japan

In city formation, not only functional requirements but also the planner’s ideology plays important roles. Land readjustment can be interpreted as an indicative methodology in “modern” Japanese city planning. The method provided a homogeneous and “economical” layout for unstructured lands and transformed them into the typical modern standard. This resulted in an increase in land prices and in improved public hygiene; however, cities were monotonously and repetitively produced in the manner of cars on assembly lines. Our first question is whether the “deliberate” modern cities were able to execute the function they were designed to perform. In addition, we examine whether such artificial planning was successful in eliminating conventional environments, such as places where the indigenous inhabitants were able to spend their lives. With this aim, we analyzed three typical districts that underwent transformation during the modern era—Nishiohji Street (Kyoto, Japan), Ximending (Taipei, Taiwan), and Shinchon Street (Seoul, Korea)—and investigated the impacts of modern Japanese city planning