Local Community Area (LCA) Project: The Family and Village System as a Design Tool

IF 1.1 0 ARCHITECTURE Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-12-17 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2021.1838104

D. Landi

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Abstract Local Community Area© project (LCA) was a theoretical experiment in architecture and social organization. It presented a new form of collective inhabitation that rejected atomization. Working in the Japanese context, the LCA explored architectural responses to the profound demographic and economic challenges facing Japan and the rest of the world. While open to western modernization, Japan has preserved many traditional aspects such as the notion of Ie (the family system) and the Mura (the village system). This has provided space for potentially innovative socio-economic paradigms and correlating architectural and urban experiments. Taking this into consideration, the aim of this article is to critically explore the theoretical case study offered by the LCA. As historical examples that were responses to their socio-cultural contexts, the LCA speculated on architecture not as an artistic or economic manifesto but as a tool for questioning the contemporary Japanese urban society.

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地方社区区域(LCA)项目:以家庭和村庄系统为设计工具

当地社区©项目(LCA)是一个关于建筑和社会组织的理论实验。它提出了一种新的集体居住形式，拒绝了原子化。在日本的背景下，LCA探索了建筑对日本和世界其他地区面临的深刻的人口和经济挑战的回应。在向西方现代化开放的同时，日本保留了许多传统的方面，比如家庭制和村制。这为潜在的创新社会经济范式以及相关的建筑和城市实验提供了空间。考虑到这一点，本文的目的是批判性地探讨LCA提供的理论案例研究。作为对社会文化背景的回应的历史例子，LCA认为建筑不是艺术或经济宣言，而是质疑当代日本城市社会的工具。

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