The PLAN: What Adelaide can learn from Japan
This week, the PLAN speaks to Adelaide architect Julian Worrall about his long career with Klein Dytham in Japan, and what Adelaide and Australia might learn from Japanese approaches to social, environmental and economic pressures facing modern societies.
Julian, currently an associate professor of architecture and urban studies at Waseda University, speaks about why he chose to study and work in Japan and the different way that architects and architecture are valued there.
He provides a fascinating non-western view of the ways that the technological progress of the 20th century was adopted and developed in Japan. His own doctoral thesis looked at the insertion of rail networks and stations in Tokyo – public infrastructure that proved fundamental to the development of a new idea of urbanism and public space that did not exist in Japanese cities beforehand. Suddenly there was public space, a plaza where people could gather and protest – as they did in the late sixties, prompting a change in laws that declared railway plazas were for commuters in transit making it illegal to loiter there.
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Hit play below to hear the full podcast with Julian and the PLAN team.
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