Recognizing the Similar and Thus Accepting the Other: The European and Japanese Traditions of Building With Wood

This article shows that building issues have not been tackled fundamentally differently in Europe and Japan despite large cultural differences. Different cultural expressions must not necessarily be equated with different thinking. The paper contrasts two apparently contradictory views. Numerous an...

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Autor principal:	Klaus Zwerger
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Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	INTBAU Spain 2021
Materias:	Identity Perception Pragmatic building solutions Building cultures Typology Architecture NA1-9428 Building construction TH1-9745
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8fbd6013200f44f59350ac8329c3aa492021-11-15T21:31:46ZRecognizing the Similar and Thus Accepting the Other: The European and Japanese Traditions of Building With Wood2660-58212660-583Xhttps://doaj.org/article/8fbd6013200f44f59350ac8329c3aa492021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.traditionalarchitecturejournal.com/index.php/home/article/view/520https://doaj.org/toc/2660-5821https://doaj.org/toc/2660-583X This article shows that building issues have not been tackled fundamentally differently in Europe and Japan despite large cultural differences. Different cultural expressions must not necessarily be equated with different thinking. The paper contrasts two apparently contradictory views. Numerous analyses of Japanese “otherness” in “Western” as well as local perception dominate the literature. But the results of extensive architectural field surveys seem to indicate the contrary. These results show similar and equal backgrounds and conditions resulting in similar and equal building types and techniques. They show that our ways of addressing a task are prompted by pragmatism. Broadly identical solutions were developed worldwide long before globalization. Yet this realization does not allow us to conclude that equal appearances can be taken to be equal in content. Klaus ZwergerINTBAU SpainarticleIdentityPerceptionPragmatic building solutionsBuilding culturesTypologyArchitectureNA1-9428Building constructionTH1-9745ENESJournal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, Iss 2 (2021)
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description	This article shows that building issues have not been tackled fundamentally differently in Europe and Japan despite large cultural differences. Different cultural expressions must not necessarily be equated with different thinking. The paper contrasts two apparently contradictory views. Numerous analyses of Japanese “otherness” in “Western” as well as local perception dominate the literature. But the results of extensive architectural field surveys seem to indicate the contrary. These results show similar and equal backgrounds and conditions resulting in similar and equal building types and techniques. They show that our ways of addressing a task are prompted by pragmatism. Broadly identical solutions were developed worldwide long before globalization. Yet this realization does not allow us to conclude that equal appearances can be taken to be equal in content.
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title_short	Recognizing the Similar and Thus Accepting the Other: The European and Japanese Traditions of Building With Wood
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Recognizing the Similar and Thus Accepting the Other: The European and Japanese Traditions of Building With Wood

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