BUA 2024 - Japanese traditional buildings in wood by Mr. Tor Olav Austigard

Tor Olav Austigard is a practicing architect, investigating spaces for creativity and thinking in the vast traditions of Norway, Europe, and Japan. Tor Olav Austigard also holds a degree in neuroscience, frequently lecturing on creativity and unconscious in relation to architecture. He has supported the public oppsosition towards modernist architecture through a series of lectures and articles, especially focusing on scientific evidence
Japanese traditional buildings in wood
As we again turn to classical traditions in European architecture, we are confronted with the nature of our own contemporary culture and how that might be aligned, non-aligned, or just irrelevant for architecture. In that context Japanese architecture may provide a surprising contemporary backdoor into ancient as well as pre-Christian Nordic culture, and also help overcome European dogmatism.
Video credits: Dag W. Grundseth. Pixmedia
Subtitles : Frederik Nygård Stokvik. Ny Urbanisme Norge

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Wonderful lecture. Respectfully, I might suggest the speaker become more conscious of his use of ‘ehh’s and ‘umm’s