Published 2025-02-01
“…The growing vocabulary of cosmotechnics has offered opportunities to revisit the legacies of alternative perspectives to architecture, urbanisation and technology and thereby redefine the role of architecture as a major world-making agency in the
Anthropocene. Joining such efforts, the present
review examines Hara’s 1987 book Space <From Function to Modality> (1987), which collects six interconnected essays written in 1975–1987, focusing especially on ‘On Homogenous Space’ in 1975 and ‘From Function To Modality’ and ‘Not-Not and a Spatial Tradition of Japan’ both in 1987 to trace the trajectory of his three main concepts ‘function,’ ‘homogenous space’ and ‘modality.” …”
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