Study on the puzzlement of designers and architects in the initial stages of modern architecture through analysis of the Arts & Crafts Movements and the Bunri-ha Kenchikukai

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K04820
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 23040:Architectural history and design-related
• Research Institution: Gifu University
• Principal Investigator: Sugiyama Mao 岐阜大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (70625756)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 惑い / アーツ・アンド・クラフツ運動 / 分離派建築会 / 近代建築 / 両義性 / 原始性 / 部屋 / 装飾

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on the ambiguous thoughts of architects and designers who had participated in the early modern architectural activities of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain or the Bunri-ha Kenchikukai in Japan. Through descriptive analyses, this study elucidated the extent and meaning of two opposing concepts such as nature and history, city and country, decoration and space, primitivism and modernism, and plants and animals. This examination dealt with the writings by William Morris, Walter Crane, Lewis Foreman Day, Charles Robert Ashbee, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, William Richard Lethaby, Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, Sutemi Horiguchi, Chikatada Kurata, and so on.

Free Research Field

建築歴史・意匠

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

大きく二つの学術的意義があると考える。ひとつは「惑い」や「両義性」という概念を提示したことであり、機能性や合理性等のいわゆる近代的側面からのみ建築や装飾を評価しない方法を示した。もうひとつは近代建築草創期の英国と日本の思想的交流の一端を示したことであり、起源をめぐる問いの構造等を明らかにした。社会的意義として、研究成果の一部を分離派建築会に関する展覧会で発表することができた。