Tomohiro Hata Architect & Associates

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The Function of Architecture as Revealed by Human Existence What is architecture, and for whom or for what does it exist? To face this fundamental theme, I have felt it inevitable to think first about the issue of human existence itself, simply because architecture is the existence created by mankind. We tend to regard our own existence as something unique and absolute. Yet, I believe we have a rather relative existence, situated and reflected through external conditions such as landscape and human relationships. Only through the external world—through landscape, other people, even the movement of celestial bodies, do we come to confirm our own existence. We are, on one hand, subjects who look at the world. On the other hand, we are objects looked at by the world. Each time I become aware of this "relational nature" of human existence, I find myself returning to the question of what the role of architecture in such condition is. When we apply this structure—where the subject is exposed and made legible by the external world—to architecture, we can say that architecture is the entity that lies between the subject and the external world. The subject looks out on the external world through architecture and forms a relationship with it. At the same time, the external world looks back at us through the interface of architecture and allows us to find who we are.

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