Research On The Japanese Contemporary Architectural Creation: A Perspective Of National Deep-rooted Nature

The Japanese contemporary architectural creation has leaped into the frontranks of the world and has showed the distinctive characteristics of the times andnationality. There are7Japanese architects who had won the Pritzker ArchitecturePrize in total until2014, and Japan has won the second largest number of the prizeafter America."Japanese style" has often been mentioned to comment these Japanesewinners by the Pritzker commission, and it is widely accepted that "Japanese taste"exists in the Japanese contemporary architecture. But most of Japanese architectsnever mention the tradition or nationality, and even avoid to talk on the topics. So itis worth us to think what are the reasons resulted in the above phenomena. On theother hand, for the problem of the nationality of contemporary architecture, wealways have a misunderstanding in the discussion methods, that have been stuck atthe levels whether the contemporary architecture has nationality or not and whatkind of the nationality it has. But the key to solve these problems should be tounderstand why architecture has nationality. Why can not contemporary architectureand nationality be separated? It derives to the forming gene of architecturalnationality, which is based on the national deep-rooted nature. It makes thecontemporary architecture and buildings in any future era will not be able to trulyseparate from the nationality.National deep-rooted nature is the origin of architectural creative thinking.Because of its existence, different buildings embody the different nationalities. Asthe research on the origin of architectural creative thinking, this dissertation regardsthe national deep-rooted nature as the breakthrough point, discusses the relationshipbetween contemporary architectural creative thinking and the national deep-rootednature, and defines the concept of the national deep-rooted nature of architecture.With the main line of the national deep-rooted nature, the philosophical basis of theparticularity of life and the primordial nature of consciousness, and theoreticalfoundation of the architectural ethnology and cultural philosophy, this dissertationproposes the research framework of Japanese contemporary architectural creationtheory from the perspective of the national deep-rooted nature and then analyzes theoriginal motivation and potential principle of the contemporary architecturalcreation.The main research method is formal logical deduction, and the research ordersare construction of the concept, analysis of the connotation, contents and forms,Japanese national deep-rooted nature and the representation of Japanese nationaldeep-rooted nature in architecture. This dissertation firstly explores the general provisions about the national deep-rooted nature from the following aspects,including the origin, connotation, mechanism, content and form, and essence etc.Then the forming factors and manifestations of the Japanese national deep-rootednature are explained. From the theoretical dimension and formal expression, thebasic meaning of the national deep-rooted nature of Japanese contemporaryarchitecture has been analyzed and its national deep-rooted nature shows distinctcharacteristics. Settled to the Japanese national emotion, national cognitive andnational ideals, and the form, space, and aesthetics of contemporary architecture arecombinated and researched. The national deep-rooted nature of Japanesecontemporary architecture is derived from the island country, ambiguousness, andShinto. The research work concerns the follow three aspects: geometric structuralmorphology, slender ideology and relative complex morphology in architecturalform; short and flow, gray and natural elements in architectural space; and structuralaesthetic concept based on architectural thinking of primitive progenitor, implicitfunction aesthetic experience and ecological aesthetic conversion of natural buildingmaterial. Some problems existed in the integration process of the nationality andcontemporary architecture is reconsidered, and some advance researches on thecontemporary architectural creation theory is proposed. This dissertation has gotsome benefit achievements as follow.The theoretical support system of Japanese contemporary architectural creationis constructed regarded the national deep-rooted nature in Japanese contemporaryarchitecture as the breakthrough point.The theoretical connotation of national deep-rooted nature in Japanesecontemporary architecture is proposed through the theoretical support of"architecture ethnology" and "cultural philosophy".The deeper structure of particularity of Japanese contemporary architecturalcreation is revealed from national emotion of island country, ambiguous nationalcognition, Shinto national ideals and their prominent influence in the form, spaceand aesthetic of Japanese contemporary architecture.Overall, this dissertation performs in-depth analysis and discussion aboutnational deep-rooted nature in contemporary architecture from three aspects,including theoretical construction, expression form and research value. First, in thetheoretical level: a detailed analysis has been performed from academic origin,general provisions, content category, expression form, and etc, and then a theoreticalframework system of national deep-rooted nature theory in contemporaryarchitecture has been built. Secondly, in the expression form level: according to thenational experience, expression form and architectural theory, a series of problems ofcontemporary Japanese architecture, such as forming factors, connotation, and trend,are been thought and deduced. Finally, in the research value level: when contemporary architecture faces circumstances of modernity, globalization andnationalism, how to express its characteristics and continuous vitality, and how toseek the development ways of architecture in the future according to the theory ofthe national deep-rooted nature should been thought deeply.