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Makeshift: Some Reflections on Japanese Design Sensibility
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2006
DOI: 10.1002/ad.107
Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Architectural Design
Special Issue: Design Through Making
Volume 75, Issue 4, pages 78–85, July/August 2005
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How to Cite
Chaplin, S. (2005), Makeshift: Some Reflections on Japanese Design Sensibility. Architectural Design, 75: 78–85. doi: 10.1002/ad.107
Publication History
- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2006
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2006
- Abstract
- Cited By
Keywords:
- Toyo Ito & Associates;
- Tod's Store;
- Arata Isozaki;
- Frei Otto;
- Shigeru Ban;
- Japan Pavilion, Hanover;
- Shigeru Ban;
- Leonard Koren;
- Jun Aoki;
- Louis Vuitton store;
- Toyo Ito;
- Kazuo Seijima
Abstract
By constructing a series of prologues on preconditions of making across cultural and industrial traditions, Sarah Chaplin describes the embedded condition of uncertainty that lies within the very human act of making. ‘Makeshift’ recognises the impermanent and the imperfect, the ritualistic and the indeterminate. From a question of meaning, this text argues that in Japanese culture at least, ‘things are never fully designed, but are always in a state of being designed’. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.