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Zusatztext "This remarkable study by Jin Baek draws important insights about architectural sustainability and ethics from the non-dualistic philosophy of Tesuro Watsuji (1889-1960). Showing the limitations of current positions that objectify the environment and propose an architecture of personal experimentalism! the book participates significantly in current conversations around the concept of atmosphere and attunement. Drawing particularly from Watsuji's central concept of climate (Jap. Fudo) as a trans-subjective and encompassing context for the "social body" involving both culture and nature! Baek demonstrates both the misconception of atmosphere as a subjective effect! and the radical limitations of a discourse on sustainability that treats this problem as a mere technological question reducible to mathematical parameters." - Alberto Pérez-Gómez! Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture! McGill University! Montreal"Not since Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust (1865) has there been such a persuasive account of the inseparability of architecture's ethical and environmental responsibilities. Baek's study is particularly relevant today! when sustainability discussions suffer from both a narrow dependency on the natural sciences and corresponding neglect of the social and cultural dimensions of resource allocation. Through studies of great architects-Ando! Neutra! Aalto and others-Architecture as the Ethics of Climate has reoriented architecture toward more humane! just! and inspiring solutions." -David Leatherbarrow! University of Pennsylvania! USA"It's rare that architectural writing reaches the depths that Jin Baek's does! rich in scholarship and without undue technicality. Based in the ethico-phenomenological philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji-one of Japan's most prolific philosophers and a critic of Heidegger's-Baek generates new avenues of architectural thought! ones that give deeper meaning to "sustainability" as well as how architecture might help us live happily among each other. Climate understood as fudo! inescapable even as we try to escape it! is best accepted with an opened window! a reached-for sweater! a shaken umbrella! and a friend to agree "it's gotten fresh outside." As neutralization gives on to engagement! so experience gives on to relationship." - Michael Benedikt! Hal Box Chair in Urbanism! ACSA Distinguished Professor! Director! Center for American Architecture and Design! School of Architecture! The University of Texas at Austin! USA Informationen zum Autor Jin Baek teaches theory and history at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering of Seoul National University. His research focuses on environmental ethics, cross-cultural issues that exist between East Asia and the West in both architecture and urbanism, and the cultural significance of urban regeneration. Klappentext This book explores the notion of climate itself, its relationship with human culture, and its significance to architecture and urbanism by referring to the environmental philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji, a leading thinker of modern Japan. Zusammenfassung This book explores the notion of climate itself, its relationship with human culture, and its significance to architecture and urbanism by referring to the environmental philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji, a leading thinker of modern Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Tetsuro Watsuji's Notion of Fudo and Its Cultural Significance 1.1 Beyond Heidegger's Dasein 1.2 What is Fudo ? 1.3 Ex-sistere and Reflection 1.4 Beyond Regional Determinism 1.5 Ethics of the Inter-personal 1.6 Inter- Fudos and the Subject transcending the Insularity of a Fudo 2. "Self-less Openness" and Fudo : Renewed Sustainable Significance of Japanese Vernacular Architecture 2.1 Criticism of the Traditional Japanese House 2.2 Corridor and Individualism 2.3 The Wall,...
