

Wed, 30 Oct
|Banqueting Hall, Tudor House & Garden
Toshihide to Tesco - Why do buildings look the way they do?
Join Alex Faulkner for October's illustrated talk [fully booked!]
Time & Location
30 Oct 2024, 10:30 – 11:30 GMT
Banqueting Hall, Tudor House & Garden, Bugle St, Southampton SO14 2AD, UK
About the event
We're sorry but this talk is now fully booked. You can add your name to a wait list by clicking the Register button; if anyone drops out, we'll offer their seat to the wait list in first-come, first-served order.
What is the primary cultural influence that has delivered the Modernist aesthetic that dominates our built landscape, especially in retail and office environments?
In this talk, Alex Faulkner, an artist and the Director of the Toshidama Gallery, traces the influence of Japanese design on emerging European and American architects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Has commercial gain removed the spiritual importance of Japanese design and left us with a built environment with neither the familiarity of our own regional style nor the sensuality of the Japanese? We will look at how Japonisme is Western culture's guilty secret.
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