The word time occurs more than seven times as often as space in written English, yet in the design of the indoor environments where we now spend most of our lives these priorities are typically reversed, with time often being little more than an afterthought. Embodied Time endeavors to correct that imbalance by demonstrating how built environments can be designed to evoke positive recollections of the past, interactions with the present, and anticipations of the future.
This Here Now uses primarily Japanese examples to explain how buildings can be designed to help us both celebrate and transcend our separateness. It explains how traditional Japanese buildings responded to distinctive materials, objects, and moments, and argues that the acknowledgment of such events can help to affirm our own uniqueness, location and presence. It also shows how buildings can help us to overcome our separateness by enabling us to share experiences with each other.
Research Awards
eLit Gold Medal, 2019 Constructed Environment Excellence Award,2019
Oregon Interdisciplinary Research Award,2019 Digital Book World Award,2018
John Yeon Center Publication Grant,2010
Mulvanny G2 Research Grant,2009
Oregon Translation Research Grant,2008
JSPS Research Fellowship,2005
Japan Foundation Publication Grant,2003
Graham Foundation Publication Grant,2002
Japan Foundation Research Fellowship,1995
AIA International Monograph Award,1994
Architects Journal Book of the Year,1993
Fulbright Scholarship,1986
British Academy Research Studentship,1986
The Constructed Other examines three interwoven narratives in Western perceptions of Japanese architecture: a desire to have new Western ideas validated by traditional Japanese buildings, efforts to assimilate elements of traditional Japanese architecture, and a wish to see Japanese traditions reflected in contemporary Japanese buildings.
Naturally Naturally Animated Architecture explains how the natural movements of the sun, wind and rain can be used to improve the well-being of people in buildings and raise awareness of sustainable living practices. In demonstrating how buildings can be designed to reconcile their traditional role as shelter from the elements with the active inclusion of their movement, the book shows how, in the process of separating us from the extremes of the natural world, architecture can also be a means of reconnecting us with nature. The video-augmented print edition is available from Amazon, and the animated eBook is available from Rakuten Kobo and the Apple iBookstore.
Three decades after it first appeared, this revised and expanded study of the role of Japan in the work of America's most famous architect includes new discussions of Japan as other, the meaning of cultural appropriation and the nature of Wright’s design process. Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan Revisited.
To exist is to have a particular materiality in a specific part of space at a given moment in time. Place, Time and Being is about buildings that, by actively celebrating these fundamental limits, seem able to enhance our experience of being. This Includes helping us to orientate ourselves and feel more at home in the world, making us more alive to the moment and the passage of time, and confirming the intrinsic uniqueness of all material being, including, by implication, our own.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan was the first comprehensive account of the creative relationship between America’s leading modern architect and the traditional art and architecture of Japan. The book won an International Architectural Monograph Award from the American Institute of Architects.