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

澳大利亚的当代建筑和城市主义通常关注的是“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作人用作一个普通的大都市背景。相比之下，日本的当代建筑师开发了一种充满政治色彩的建筑，在背弃民族主义的同时，也记录了他们国家身份的复杂性。该项目将对比日本和澳大利亚领先的当代建筑师的意识形态，并将作为评估澳大利亚当代建筑的基准。

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.