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Aug. 8th, 2013 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogA paper called "Pop-up Ethnography at the Situated Cinema" (Radice, Harvey, and Turner) introduced me to the term "pet architecture." We're not talking a room with a view for Fluffy. Rather, the term used by a Japanese architectural firm for "buildings that have been squeezed into left over urban spaces."
That's a concept I'm interested in on a bunch of different levels! And to top it off, the name comes from the way the group feels people interact with them.
"It's maybe because their presence produces a relaxed atmosphere and make us feel relieved. Pets, companion animals of the people, are usually small, humorous and charming. We find what we call "pet architecture", architecture having pet like characteristics, existing in the most unexpected places within the Tokyo city limits."
Buildings that are a little odd, but give you warm fuzzies like a companion animals do. Somehow, that just seems very Japanese to me.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelier_Bow-Wow
That's a concept I'm interested in on a bunch of different levels! And to top it off, the name comes from the way the group feels people interact with them.
"It's maybe because their presence produces a relaxed atmosphere and make us feel relieved. Pets, companion animals of the people, are usually small, humorous and charming. We find what we call "pet architecture", architecture having pet like characteristics, existing in the most unexpected places within the Tokyo city limits."
Buildings that are a little odd, but give you warm fuzzies like a companion animals do. Somehow, that just seems very Japanese to me.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelier_Bow-Wow
