2021 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
Architectural Tour
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Architecture and Building Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Yasuhito Fujita
- Class Format
- Experiment
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ARC.D301
- Number of credits
- 001
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
[Notice] Because of the present situation with covid_19, the schedule of the class haven't been fixed. If you attend the class, please register it anyway and please wait for the additional information from the lecturer.
This is an intensive course to visit many historic architectures and see their characteristics on site.
It is necessary for the students who are expected to be a successful architect in the world to learn how their own architectural culture had been developed in its history.
Course description and aims
The aim of this course is to deepen our understanding on the characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture through visiting many important cultural properties in Kinki district.
Keywords
Ｊapanese architecture, wooden structure, traditional architecutre, important cultural property,
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This intensive course requires students to participate in two-day lectures and a six-day tour for the course credit.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Lecture about visiting sites and buildings | Confirm the location of visiting points. |
| Class 2 | Historic temple buildings in Ikaruga area | Read the overview of the visiting buildings beforehand. |
| Class 3 | Historic buildings in Nara prefecture | Read the overview of the visiting buildings beforehand. |
| Class 4 | Historic buildings in Shiga prefecture | Read the overview of the visiting buildings beforehand. |
| Class 5 | Historic buildings in Kyoto | Read the overview of the visiting buildings beforehand. |
| Class 6 | Historic buildings in Kyoto | Read the overview of the visiting buildings beforehand. |
| Class 7 | Historic buildings in Kinki area | Read the overview of the visiting buildings beforehand. |
| Class 8 | Conclusion | Confirm the drawings of visited buildings. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai "Nihon Kenchiku-shi Zushu"(shokoku-sha, 2011)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Yuichiro Kojiro "'Ma'- design of Japanese architecture" (Kajima shuppan-kai,1999 )
Evaluation methods and criteria
Full attendance of 6 days tour and submission of the final report are requested to the participants.
Related courses
- the history of Japanese architecture
Prerequisites
The participants are limited to 30 in this class. If the applicants are over 30, the student of architectural department has priority.
Other
The schedule will be changed into the latter semester of academic year 2021-2022 (probably in February or March 2022). Depending on the situation with colona virus, it is possible to be cancelled (actually it was cancelled in 2020-2021). Please pay attention to the information from the lecturer.