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AOYAGI NORIMASA
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College of Science and Engineering Department of Architecture and Urban Design
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Associate Professor
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Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage
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Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Academic background
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2008/03
Degree Acquisition
│ Tokyo Institute of Technology Dr. Eng
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~1998/03
Department of Architecture and Building Engineering │ Graduate School of Engineering │ Tokyo Institute of Technology │ Graduated
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~2008/03
Doctorial Course │ Department of Architecture and Building Engineering │ Graduate School of Engineering │ Graduate School, Tokyo Institute of Technology │ Completed
Research activities
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Architectural Institute of Japan
Subject of research
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History of Japanese Architecture and Urbanism
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History of Architectural Preservation in Modern Japan
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Reconstruction/Restoration Design of Historic Buildings
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Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage
Research summary
History of Japanese Architecture:
History of Modern Architecture, Preservation
and Restoration of Historic Buildings, Disaster Prevention Culture in Historic Cities etc.
I have been engaged in study of modern architectural history (such as modern Japanesque architecture and pre-war modernism architecture), and among others, I have focused on study of history of repairing cultural properties buildings. So far, I have published a series of studies, including my thesis "THE CONCEPTS OF ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION UNDER THE LAW FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATIONAL TREASURES (1929-50): PRESERVATIONISTS' IDEA FOR THE HORYUJI GRAND RESTORATION PROJECT" and 'THE CONCEPTS OF ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION UNDER THE LAW FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NATIONAL TREASURES (1929-50)' ("Journal of Architecture and Planning" Vol. 620, October 2007, winner of Encouragement Prize of AIJ). In these works, I focused my attention on restoration works under the Law for the Preservation of National Treasures (1929~50), and among others, the largest and most important work, the horyuji grand restoration project (1934~56). Based on materials such as Dr. Minoru Ohoka Collection materials contained in Japan Open-air Folk House Museum, I further analyzed restoration techniques to find how each building was restored, and studied issues inherent in preserving and restoring cultural properties buildings. The findings are summarized as follows: 1) Different from under the Law for the Preservation of Old Shrines and Temples (1897~1929), restoration craftsperson's' preservation idea under the Law for the Preservation of National Treasures was to recreate "design (style) at the time of foundation" including not only appearance of the building but also technologies and techniques, at the time of foundation; 2) Such preservation idea was inseparably related to the modern restoration method "wrecking and restoration" that was started along with enactment of the Law for the Preservation of Old Shrines and Temples; and 3) the horyuji grand restoration project should be revaluated as an example that symbolically indicates how preservation and restoration are in modern Japan, in a way that it clearly shows an issue of preservation and restoration that always comprise incompatible values.
I have also concurrently studied so-called "reconstruction" architecture in which historic buildings are rebuilt using only new materials. For example, I have conducted studies such as "CONCEPT AND METHOD OF ARCHITECTURAL RECONSTRUCTION SHOWN IN THE MASARU SEKINO'S RESTORATION OF PRIMITIVE DWELLINGS AT THE REMAINS OF TORO" ("Journal of Architecture and Planning" Vol. 654, August 2010) to see the process of restoration design of primitive dwellings in the period from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, and clarified that "restoration" architecture that generally lacks grounds for determining the shape of the building remarkably tended to focus on "authenticity of technologies" (recreating, on a priority basis, framework form or architecture production technologies) in order to improve certainty. (This is seen the current restoration works such as Imperial Audience Hall of Nara Palace and Mitsubishi Ichigokan.) In sum, both "restoration" and "restoration" meant the same activity to recreate a lost thing as what it used to be, and were based on a way of thinking that recreation of old "technologies" is focused on.
Present specialized field
Architectural history/Design, Cultural assets study and museology, Restoration Design of Historic Buildings (Keyword:History of Architecture, Preservation/Restoration of Historic Buildings)
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