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Author:   Jin Baek (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780415623490

ISBN 10:   0415623499
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   06 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1. Tetsuro Watsuji’s Notion of Fudo and Its Cultural Significance 1.1 Beyond Heidegger’s Dasein 1.2 What is Fudo? 1.3 Ex-sistere and Reflection 1.4 Beyond Regional Determinism 1.5 Ethics of the Inter-personal 1.6 Inter-Fudos and the Subject transcending the Insularity of a Fudo 2. ""Self-less Openness"" and Fudo: Renewed Sustainable Significance of Japanese Vernacular Architecture 2.1 Criticism of the Traditional Japanese House 2.2 Corridor and Individualism 2.3 The Wall, Fan and the Wind Conduit 2.4 ""Self-less Openness"" of Japanese Vernacular Housing 2.5 Modernity and the Duality between the Inside and Outside 2.6 Joint Measure and the Spatiality of Japanese Vernacular Housing 2.7 From Collectivity to Privacy 2.8 Contemporary Fudo-sensitive House 3. The Ecology of ""We"" and Ambient Warmth: Richard Neutra’s Ecological Architecture 3.1 Beyond Psychoanalysis and Positivism 3.2 Coordinated Balance of Different Forces 3.3 Anchorage and the Coordination of Forces 3.4 Illumination 3.5 Warmth and the Inter-personal in Japanese Tradition 3.6 Facing and the Ecology of ""We"" 3.7 Ecos and the Inter-personal 4. Dialectics between the Regional and the Trans-Regional 4.1 Fudo and Beyond Critical Regionalism 4.2 Criticism of Regionalism 4.3 Fudo and the Resuscitation of the Corporeal Efficacy of a Code 4.4 Fudo and the Dialectics of Opposites 4.5 Dialectics of Opposites and Human Praxis 4.6 Beyond Regional Confines 4.7 The Regional and the Trans-Regional 4.8 Type and Differences Conclusion Index"

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This remarkable study by Jin Baek draws important insights about architectural sustainability and ethics from the non-dualistic philosophy of Tesuro Watsuji (1889-1960). Showing the limitations of current positions that objectify the environment and propose an architecture of personal experimentalism, the book participates significantly in current conversations around the concept of atmosphere and attunement. Drawing particularly from Watsuji's central concept of climate (Jap. Fudo) as a trans-subjective and encompassing context for the social body involving both culture and nature, Baek demonstrates both the misconception of atmosphere as a subjective effect, and the radical limitations of a discourse on sustainability that treats this problem as a mere technological question reducible to mathematical parameters. - Alberto Perez-Gomez, Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal Not since Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust (1865) has there been such a persuasive account of the inseparability of architecture's ethical and environmental responsibilities. Baek's study is particularly relevant today, when sustainability discussions suffer from both a narrow dependency on the natural sciences and corresponding neglect of the social and cultural dimensions of resource allocation. Through studies of great architects-Ando, Neutra, Aalto and others-Architecture as the Ethics of Climate has reoriented architecture toward more humane, just, and inspiring solutions. - David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA It's rare that architectural writing reaches the depths that Jin Baek's does, rich in scholarship and without undue technicality. Based in the ethico-phenomenological philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji-one of Japan's most prolific philosophers and a critic of Heidegger's-Baek generates new avenues of architectural thought, ones that give deeper meaning to sustainability as well as how architecture might help us live happily among each other. Climate understood as fudo, inescapable even as we try to escape it, is best accepted with an opened window, a reached-for sweater, a shaken umbrella, and a friend to agree it's gotten fresh outside. As neutralization gives on to engagement, so experience gives on to relationship. - Michael Benedikt, Hal Box Chair in Urbanism, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for American Architecture and Design, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

This remarkable study by Jin Baek draws important insights about architectural sustainability and ethics from the non-dualistic philosophy of Tesuro Watsuji (1889-1960). Showing the limitations of current positions that objectify the environment and propose an architecture of personal experimentalism, the book participates significantly in current conversations around the concept of atmosphere and attunement. Drawing particularly from Watsuji's central concept of climate (Jap. Fudo) as a trans-subjective and encompassing context for the social body involving both culture and nature, Baek demonstrates both the misconception of atmosphere as a subjective effect, and the radical limitations of a discourse on sustainability that treats this problem as a mere technological question reducible to mathematical parameters. - Alberto Perez-Gomez, Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal Not since Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust (1865) has there been such a persuasive account of the inseparability of architecture's ethical and environmental responsibilities. Baek's study is particularly relevant today, when sustainability discussions suffer from both a narrow dependency on the natural sciences and corresponding neglect of the social and cultural dimensions of resource allocation. Through studies of great architects-Ando, Neutra, Aalto and others-Architecture as the Ethics of Climate has reoriented architecture toward more humane, just, and inspiring solutions. - David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA It's rare that architectural writing reaches the depths that Jin Baek's does, rich in scholarship and without undue technicality. Based in the ethico-phenomenological philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji-one of Japan's most prolific philosophers and a critic of Heidegger's-Baek generates new avenues of architectural thought, ones that give deeper meaning to sustainability as well as how architecture might help us live happily among each other. Climate understood as fudo, inescapable even as we try to escape it, is best accepted with an opened window, a reached-for sweater, a shaken umbrella, and a friend to agree it's gotten fresh outside. As neutralization gives on to engagement, so experience gives on to relationship. - Michael Benedikt, Hal Box Chair in Urbanism, ACSA Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for American Architecture and Design, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Author Information

Jin Baek teaches theory and history at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering of Seoul National University. His research focuses on environmental ethics, cross-cultural issues that exist between East Asia and the West in both architecture and urbanism, and the cultural significance of urban regeneration.

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