Quarantine Day 7
Just pictures from yet another supermarket walk for today! Taking a rest from writing for the weekend, because tomorrow I will need a lot of creative energy to be a guest in an architecture podcast.
Just pictures from yet another supermarket walk for today! Taking a rest from writing for the weekend, because tomorrow I will need a lot of creative energy to be a guest in an architecture podcast.
Quarantine Day 8
A 4-hour podcast talk was a huge accomplishment for me today, I'm sooo looking forward to the edited episode (or several episodes, because we touched on too many topics at once and it went far beyond Japanese architecture). If you wanna listen to the previous episodes for now, you can find them here. It's in Russian. And above, you'll find some pics from my everyday ritual walk.
A 4-hour podcast talk was a huge accomplishment for me today, I'm sooo looking forward to the edited episode (or several episodes, because we touched on too many topics at once and it went far beyond Japanese architecture). If you wanna listen to the previous episodes for now, you can find them here. It's in Russian. And above, you'll find some pics from my everyday ritual walk.
For those who want to have a productive Sunday evening and understand Japanese architecture a bit more:
🇬🇧 Just a reminder that I wrote a nice article in English about Japanese social housing (those dilapidated apartment blocks from J-horror movies) and made this little video from the real apartment visits.
🇷🇺 The same article in Russian can be found right here.
🇬🇧 Just a reminder that I wrote a nice article in English about Japanese social housing (those dilapidated apartment blocks from J-horror movies) and made this little video from the real apartment visits.
🇷🇺 The same article in Russian can be found right here.
ArchDaily
The Rise and Fall of Danchi, Japan’s Largest Social Housing Experiment
Japanese mass housing from the 1960s is a cross-cultural experiment that merged Western and Soviet modernist typologies with traditional Japanese elements.
I am very glad I finally updated telegram and started the comment section here, so happy to see that some people actually read my long(ish) texts and are curious about the details. I'll elaborate on one of the comments about danchi.
Dilapidating modernist mass housing from the 1960s in Japan has all the problems of its Western prototypes except for one: in these neighborhoods there's not much crime. Social environment in Japan is quite homogeneous and self-regulating: after becoming a criminal and serving time in jail you’ll probably end up as total outcast so people think twice. There's a strong culture of "public shame" and "family disgrace"; any moral misbehavior is fatal. Some foreigners I know joke about local policemen being so bored with the absence of serious crimes that they engage in questionable activities such as placing paper warnings onto irregularly parked bicycles. Yes, most of the bicycles are registered and yes, there are paid bike parkings near every metro and railway station, but usually there're no consequences if you don't pay the fee or park in a wrong place. A bored policemen will just put a small but shameful sticker saying that next time you are invited to do it better.
Dilapidating modernist mass housing from the 1960s in Japan has all the problems of its Western prototypes except for one: in these neighborhoods there's not much crime. Social environment in Japan is quite homogeneous and self-regulating: after becoming a criminal and serving time in jail you’ll probably end up as total outcast so people think twice. There's a strong culture of "public shame" and "family disgrace"; any moral misbehavior is fatal. Some foreigners I know joke about local policemen being so bored with the absence of serious crimes that they engage in questionable activities such as placing paper warnings onto irregularly parked bicycles. Yes, most of the bicycles are registered and yes, there are paid bike parkings near every metro and railway station, but usually there're no consequences if you don't pay the fee or park in a wrong place. A bored policemen will just put a small but shameful sticker saying that next time you are invited to do it better.