The influence of Contemporary Japanese architecture: its meanings and its miss-readings.

澳大利亚的当代建筑和城市化通常关注“现代性”，而很少关注特定的文化或地方，也很少有可辨别的意识形态。因此，悉尼市经常被国际电影制片人用作一个无差别的通用大都会背景。与此相反，日本当代建筑师开发了一种充满政治色彩的建筑，它记录了他们民族身份的复杂性，同时拒绝了民族主义。该项目将对比日本和澳大利亚当代领先建筑师的意识形态，并将作为评估当代澳大利亚建筑的基准。

Contemporary architecture and urbanism in Australia has generally been concerned with addressing 'modernity' while little concerned with specific culture or place, and with little discernable ideology. Consequently, the City of Sydney is much used by international film-makers as an undifferentiated generic metropolis backdrop. In contrast, Japan's contemporary architects have developed a politically-charged architecture which registers the complexity of their national identity while turning its back on nationalism. This project will contrast the ideologies of leading contemporary architects in Japan and Australia and will serve as a benchmark against which contemporary Australian architecture can be assessed.