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Oostserre, BK City, Delft From Architectural Ethnography to Planning
Kon Wajiro and Nishiyama Uzo’s participatory research of everyday space in Japan from the 1910s to 1970s. Workshop, exhibition, book launch and walking tour
The exhibition features the achievements of two Japanese architects, Kon Wajiro (1888–1973) and Nishiyama Uzō (1911–1994), who observed the daily lives of ordinary people and who imagined housing for less privileged citizens. Kon’s visual studies of material practices and housing studies in Japan from the 1910s to the post–World War II period, and Nishiyama’s research on lifestyle and housing in post-war Japanese cities and regions shed light on the modernization of Japanese architecture from a socio-cultural perspective.
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