Recent Work:
+Book / World Observation: Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025). To be released April 22, 2025.
World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan into existing world histories, legitimate Japanese colonial expansion, and train observers to see the world in the way that he did, Itō theorized new kinds of “observation” (kansatsu) in writing and drawing that strategically blended epistemological values from European science, philosophy, and anthropology with Japanese Buddhism, folklore, and naturalism. World Observation presents close readings of Itō’s writings, sketches, and designs to cast new light on a key figure in the architectural history of Imperial Japan and situate his contributions within the sweep of global architectural history across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
+Article / “Transformers: Intermedia Architecture in Japan,” CLARA 9 (2024), 65-80.
+Article / “Disaster and the Limits of the Crit,” gta papers 8: The Crit (2024), 139-152.
https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_c8939895-1ee7-4f61-98c4-491be78840d6
+ Book Review / Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Project of a Historical Architecture, eds. Maarten Delbeke and Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 83, no. 4 (2024): 529-531.
+ Bibliography / “Architecture of Japan — Meiji Period,” Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (2024). (Subscription required for full list of ~60 entries).
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780190922467/obo-9780190922467-0100.xml
+ Book Chapter / "A World of Errors: James Fergusson's Handbook of Architecture (1855)" in Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture, eds. Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023).
+ Article / "Infested Empire: Architecture and Entomology in Colonial Japan," The Journal of Architecture(2023).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13602365.2023.2186467?src=
+ Podcast interview / Monocle, The Urbanist: Legacies Series: Kenzō Tange. Interviewed by Christopher Lord on the work and influence of Kenzō Tange. Released on July 21, 2022. https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist/562/.
+ Book Contribution / “The Lab and the Nation: Kenzo Tange and Japanese Architecture Education” in Radical Pedagogies, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Anna-Maria Meister, Evangelos Kotsioris, Federica Vannucchi and Ignacio G. Galan (The MIT Press, 2022).
+ Article / "World of Boundaries: A Discussion with Nakatani Norihito," Log 49 (2020).
+ Research Group / Habitat Building History (2019-ongoing)
Interdisciplinary research group based in Japan bringing together architecture, earth science, anthropology and art to reconsider mankind's planetary building projects as a fragile negotiation of habitat. The group is interested in developing a history of habitat building from pre-industrial practices of terraforming to future projects of post-Earth living, all the while theorizing how older modes of habitat building could potentially deter or delay ecological disaster.
+ Article / "The Cryptoshed," Log 43 (2018).
+ Symposium Organizer / "One Complex Situation: Histories of Observation in Architecture
April 7th, 2017, Princeton University. With invited talks by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Jonathan Reynolds, Charles Davis, Ayala Levin, Ed Eigen, Hadas Steiner.
Description: “One Complex Situation: Histories of Observation in Architecture” is a one-day symposium that will examine how the values and practices of observation have shaped architectural research, design, history and pedagogy. Architectural thinkers have long used the language of observation to distinguish their work from other modes of experience, but scholars have only recently dedicated themselves to historicizing the contingent nature of this choice. The symposium assembles six scholars presenting case studies from Europe, America, Africa and East Asia that situate architectural knowledge-making within specific epistemological conjunctures. At a time when the so-called boundaries of architectural research are in question and the nature of truth both in the discipline and outside of it are changing, the day’s events show that observation and what is observed form one “complex situation” that cannot be taken for granted.
Website Link: https://soa.princeton.edu/#1793
+ Article / “Model Tenants: Tokyo's Archi-Depot,” Log 39 (2017).
+ Article / “Hendrik Christian Andersen’s World Conscience,” AA Files 73 (2016), 40-47.
https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/AAPUBLICATIONS/AAFiles.php
+ Article / “The Alien Anxieties of Tokyo’s Olympic Architecture,” Art Papers (Sept/Oct. 2016).
+ Article / “The Architectural Fossil: James Fergusson, Geology and World History,” Architectural Theory Review 20.1 (2015), 46-66.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13264826.2015.1058832
+ Article / “Modern Mirages and Monsters, Architecture in Japan 1790/1892,” Pidgin 19 (2015), 40-51.
