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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/nurturing-unconscious-naturali
 zing-uncanny/
SUMMARY:Nurturing the Unconscious/Naturalizing the Uncanny: Terunobu Fujimo
 ri Architecture and Post-Apocalyptic Symbolism
DESCRIPTION:\n	Kim Hyon-Sob (Professor\, Department of Architecture\, Kor
 ea University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/discussant: Melissa McCormi
 ck (Professor of Japanese Art and Culture\, Department of East Asian Lang
 uages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Re
 ischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n\n	Terunobu Fujimori (b. 1946)\,
  who originally established his name as an architectural historian\, is no
 w more famous for his public design works\, and has even been praised as 
 ‘the most influential architect in Japan’ by the critic Kenjiro Okazak
 i (2006). The popularity of his architecture is certainly related to its f
 airy tale-like image: natural and nostalgic as well as playful\, not to me
 ntion his reputed career as a professor at the University of Tokyo. Howeve
 r\, this talk focuses on the other side of the fairy tale\, that is\, a st
 rangely unfamiliar emotion\, even an unsettling feeling at times\, which h
 is architecture also assumes. While adopting Freudian and post-Freudian co
 ncepts of ‘the uncanny’ for analysis\, it finds a contradictory sentim
 ent residing in hidden clashes between the natural and the artificial of h
 is design. Arguably\, the uncanny aspect of Fujimori’s architecture take
 s root in a post-apocalyptic sensibility imprinted in a deeper layer of th
 e Japanese unconscious\, which has been nurtured by their traumatic memori
 es of ruin\, whether caused by natural disasters or man-made catastrophes.
  Fujimori’s own hypothesis of ‘the end of history’ (2005) will be di
 scussed along with the ruin-rebirth metaphor connoted in his architecture\
 , aiming at disclosing an impasse in the current cultural state.
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