Escribir la arquitectura – Kawabata Yasunari
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Vela Castillo, José
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El escritor japonés Yasunari Kawabata (1899-
1972) fue autor de una extensa obra en la que
destacan una serie de novelas que retratan las
tensiones de un Japón que se moderniza a lo
largo del segundo tercio del siglo veinte y que
construye mediante una técnica episódica y
fragmentaria. En ellas el espacio, el tiempo y
la arquitectura cobran un papel determinante,
al punto que ayudan a construir un modo
de narrar propio en el que los hechos que
ocurren no pueden entenderse sin la existencia
conjunta de los espacios en que acontecen,
y viceversa. El presente texto quiere ofrecer
una aproximación a cómo es la arquitectura
que se desprende, sin esfuerzo aparente, de la
escritura del novelista. Para ello tomaremos
ejemplos extraídos de algunas de sus obras
y los contextualizaremos en el marco más
amplio de la cultura japonesa de la época. Una
coda final apunta algunas relaciones no tan
aparentes de lo anterior con la práctica y la
ideología del grupo de arquitectos metabolistas,
que floreció en el Japón del cambio de década
de 1950 a 1960.
The Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was the author of a series of masterful novels that he constructed by means of a fragmentary and episodic technique. In these novels he portrays the tensions of modernizing Japan throughout the second third of the twentieth century. Space, time and architecture have a protagonist role in their construction, to the point that they seem to build a narrative in which what happens cannot be understood without the joint existence of the spaces in which it happens, and vice versa. To explain the agency of this space-time architecture examples taken from his works will be contextualized in the broader framework of Japanese culture of the time. A coda tries to unveil some relations with the ideology and practice of the group of architects known as Metabolists, that flourished between the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan.
The Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was the author of a series of masterful novels that he constructed by means of a fragmentary and episodic technique. In these novels he portrays the tensions of modernizing Japan throughout the second third of the twentieth century. Space, time and architecture have a protagonist role in their construction, to the point that they seem to build a narrative in which what happens cannot be understood without the joint existence of the spaces in which it happens, and vice versa. To explain the agency of this space-time architecture examples taken from his works will be contextualized in the broader framework of Japanese culture of the time. A coda tries to unveil some relations with the ideology and practice of the group of architects known as Metabolists, that flourished between the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan.
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Vela Castillo, J. (2018). Escribir la arquitectura–Kawabata Yasunari. Revista Europea de Investigación en Arquitectura: REIA, (10), 195-212. http://reia.es/REIA10_11.pdf



