This Here Now

This Here Now explains how traditional Japanese buildings respond to distinctive materials, objects and moments, and argues that the built acknowledgment of such events can help to affirm the individuality of our own being. The book also shows how buildings can help us to overcome our separateness by enabling us to share the normally subjective experiences of this, here and now.Contents:

• Foreword (Kengo Kuma)
• Preface (Kevin Nute)
• An Architecture of Events
• This
• Here
• Now
• Beyond Japan and the Individual
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Images
• Index

Readership: Professionals, academics and students of architecture, interior design, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, Japanese studies.This Here Now;Phenomena;Embodiment;Japanese Architecture;Phenomenology;Aesthetics;Building Design;Culture;Japanese History00