| Title |
A Relationship between Europe's First Modern Minimalist Housing and Japan's Prefabrication Housing - Focusing on the Prefabrication Housing by Kunio Maekawa and Junzo Sakakura - |
| Authors |
Jun Byung-Kweon ; Kim Kyoung-Yon |
| Keywords |
Le Corbusier ; Jean Prouve ; Minimalist Housing ; Kunio Maekawa ; Junzo Sakakura ; Prefabrication |
| Abstract |
After the World War and in the process of modernization, Europe has taken active measures in resolve housing problems such as organizing CIAM led by Le Corbusier. Japan also had historical situations similar to Europe. Architects Kunio Maekawa and Junzo Sakakura, who were students of Corbusier, experimented prefabricated housing in Japan by adopting the concept of European minimalist housing. Sakakura directly adopted Jean Prouve's prefabrication housing, whereas Maekawa created his own “premos” based on his experiences with European prefabrication housing. Unlike Corbusier, who developed a totally new concept of housing by denying existing housing types, these two architects adopted European minimalist housing and combined it with the elements of traditional Japanese housing to create a housing type appropriate for the Japanese situation. The natural disasters caused by the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan remind us that we should take necessary actions to provide safe housing for citizens. In that sense, the seminar, which was held in March, under the title of “The Presentation of Minimum national Standards for the Provision of Emergent Housing During Natural Disasters”, was very timely. Korea should take appropriate and practical measures against such natural disasters accordingly. |