ABSTRACT
The explosion of the Bubble Economy in 1989 resulted in the precipitous decline of the Nikkei Stock Market and collapse of real estate values over the next three years, causing a protracted financial crisis and bringing the "Economic Miracle" to an end. During the "Lost Decade" of the 1990s that followed, only government intervention kept banks and corporations from failing. The power and status that had accrued to architects that had come of age in Japan during the period of extra ordinary growth that followed the utter devastation of World War II was over. Kajima and Tsukamoto have resuscitated and re-directed the study of Behaviorology that was in vogue among programmers configuring functional relationships during the late Modernist period in the West. Confronting limitations has also led young architects like Shuhei Endo to adopt less expensive materials and to use them in new ways.
