The Meaning of "SENSAI"
SENSAI Japanese Architecture Exhibition was took place in Museo de Arquitectura in Mexico from November 2003 to January 2004. The purpuse of this exhibition is to introduce the works of ten Japanese architects in which represent "SENSAI" ,an element of Japanese culture. SENSAI Japanese Architecture Exhibition will be planned to go on a tour in Europe,Vienna,Barcelona and Istanbul in 2005
The sentences below are the concept of SENSAI by Yokogawa
My belief is that the concept of sensai, shared across all the traditional creative fields of Japan,
cannot be understood by Western Modernist thinking.
What, then, is this notion that cannot be grasped by rationalism,
that is, by the source terminology of Western Modernism?
It was once held that a state had a tree-like structure, with the king at the top, and that so too,
a city formed a tree, with individual buildings subordinate to the metropolis as a whole,
interior spaces defined by reference to their exteriors,
and fixtures and furniture subsumed by the given interior space.
However, Japanese architecture lacks the sense of hierarchy found in Western architecture,
and building and furniture are considered equals. By extension,
on all parts of a building can be considered items of furniture.
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