Riken Yamamoto is well-known as an architect, but also happens to be trained as a historian. In graduate school, he belonged to a research laboratory dedicated to architectural history. He subsequently embarked on journeys to the Mediterranean region, Central and South America, the Middle East, India, and Nepal, surveying villages and houses as a member of the Hiroshi Hara Research Laboratory of the University of Tokyo. Based on knowledge gained from those experiences as well as from experiences in actual architectural design, Yamamoto analyzes the essential relationship between public space and private space. Hannah Arendt discussed the characteristics of urban spaces in ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, the 18th, the 19th and the 20th century. How did modern society give rise to totalitarianism? Why did humankind reject the template that had worked for so long to create viable communities? Her questions stimulated Yamamoto to seek answers.
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