Makeshift: Some Reflections on Japanese Design Sensibility

By constructing a series of prologues on preconditions of making across cultural and industrial traditions, Sarah Chaplin describes the embedded condition of uncertainty that lies within the very human act of making. ‘Makeshift’ recognises the impermanent and the imperfect, the ritualistic and the i...

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Published in:Architectural design 2005-07, Vol.75 (4), p.78-85
Main Author: Chaplin, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arata Isozaki
Frei Otto
Hanover
Japan Pavilion
Japan Pavilion, Hanover
Jun Aoki
Kazuo Seijima
Leonard Koren
Louis Vuitton store
Shigeru Ban
Tod's Store
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito & Associates
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Summary:By constructing a series of prologues on preconditions of making across cultural and industrial traditions, Sarah Chaplin describes the embedded condition of uncertainty that lies within the very human act of making. ‘Makeshift’ recognises the impermanent and the imperfect, the ritualistic and the indeterminate. From a question of meaning, this text argues that in Japanese culture at least, ‘things are never fully designed, but are always in a state of being designed’. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.107