ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on architecture, and first, on the International Style that was founded in the 1920s and 1930s with a program for identifying, categorizing and expanding upon the characteristics common to Modernism across the world. It follows a line of thought introduced by Michel Foucault in his late work to do with the concept of problematization. The chapter engages with architecture defined as a practice of representation as well as of space- and place-making. The chapter argues that the second school opens up methodological strategies that make possible the empirical understanding of the emergence of a cosmopolitan culture as emergent realities. In particular, the Tokugawa era is the focus of Jinnai's work, since it provided the basic design upon which, layer by layer, modern Tokyo was built. Post-war building in Japan discriminates between public and private spheres in a way that has increased with the advance of the modern era.
