Marrying nature and design
WHEN translating culturally bound words, Japanologist Philip Gabriel once explained, three choices exist: leave them as they are, add simple explanations or find rough equivalents.
However, the American translator of bestselling Japanese novelists acknowledges that vocabulary covering Japanese houses is tricky.?Engawa, in particular, is problematic, he says, because it refers to a type of veranda – but not as we know it.
The challenge for translators has just become tougher.
In leafy Karuizawa, in Nagano prefecture, Pritzker laureate Ryue Nishizawa has given new expression to the nostalgic feature, in a hotel – his first.
My article about the latest in the Shishi-Iwa House stable of architecturally potent boutique hotels in Karuizawa, Japan is here:
ANI-IMC-PR, FutureNow Aust_Asia Green News + ESG Future Foundations Forum. Previously based in Japan, China, & Asia business hubs. Member: AIIA Aust. Institute of International Affairs, Circular Economy Victoria and NGV.
1 年Such inspiring architecture - great article - set in Karuizawa, Nagano mountains, close+ to Tokyo. LOVE to go ~~~~