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Since the war, Japanese architects have probed the relativity of spacetime through critical debates, pivotal theories, and consequential buildings. <strong><em>The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture<\/em><\/strong> pushes past clich&eacute;s of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenisation than one of cultural invention. The realisation that buildings are dynamic events &mdash; phenomena of space-in-time, not inert objects outside time &mdash; continues to inform Japanese architecture and suggests how we can rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture pushes past clich&eacute;s of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenisation than one of cultural invention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42766,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42765","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-christopher-mead","8":"publisher-oro-editions","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture, Pages: 784 Pages, Publish Date: 8th May 2024, Author: Christopher Mead, ISBN: 9781957183350. 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