ABSTRACT
Modern architecture in Japan was saved by an architect and scholar named Yoshichika Uchida. The distortion, in brief, was the misrepresentation that modern architecture is art. All modernist movements began as a rejection of nineteenth-century art, that is, art for the bourgeoisie. Modernism preached that architecture must be made a science and a technology. The artistic architecture of the twentieth century was a product of concrete. Architecture-as-art engaged society’s attention in Japan, but the issue of democracy was woefully neglected. The transformation of architecture into science and technology is another name for the democratization of architecture. The democratization of architecture is the restoration of architecture to the people, and the conversion of architecture from a tool used by officialdom to a tool used by the individual. However, from the perspective of the democratization of architecture, their attempts all fell short.
