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the construction materials.

the style of design.

the family that lives/lived there.

the hopes, dreams and memories of those families.

this idea.

difficult times in life / the world.

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"Western aesthetics is sometimes familiar with simplicity, asymmetry, and suggestion, but not the idea that beauty lies in its own vanishing. Perishability remains, what Donald Keene has called 'the most distinctively Japanese aesthetic ideal.'

It is certainly among the earliest, being based on the Buddhist concept of Mujó, a term usually translated as impermanence. "Nothing is stable, and our only refuge lies in accepting, even celebrating this."

Donald Richie, Donald (2007), A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics.

Susan Sontags essay An Argument about beauty (from book called 'At the Same Time')

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"Many people everywhere spend their whole lives trying to escape the thought that one day they and all of theirs will be no more. Only a few poets looks at the fact, and only the Japanese, I believe, celebrate it." Donald Richie, Donald (2007), A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics.

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"To be truly free one must take on the basic conditions as they are - painful, impermanent, open, imperfect - and the be grateful for impermanence and the freedom it grants us. For in a fixed universe there would be no freedom. With that freedom we improve the campsite, teach the children, outs tyrants.

The world is nature, and in the long run inevitably wild, because the wild, as the process and essence of nature, is also and ordering of impermanence." Snyder, Gary (1990), The Practice of the Wild.

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A building with no purpose.

Not bound by capitalism or current common sense.

"When you find yourself in this mysterious space, with the first floor deeply reminiscent of the ancient Jomon period and the second floor and above extending into the future, you will forget the routine of everyday life and feel a 'crack in the extraordinary'. It would be very meaningful if you could look deep into the 'crack' that will open up the future with us through this exhibition, tracing the thought process of Naito Hiroshi, an architect with an outstanding philosophy."

Toshiaki Maruyama, Chairman of the RINRI Institute of Ethics.

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"You are afraid of dying. But, come now, how is this life of yours anything but death."

Seneca, Moral Letters, 77.18.

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"Most of us are afraid of dying. But sometimes this fear begs the question: To protect what exactly? For a lot of people the answer is: hours of tv, gossiping, gorging, wasting potential, reporting to a boring job, and on and on and on. Except, in the strictest sense, is this actually a life? Is it worth gripping so tightly and being afraid of loosing? It doesn't sound like it."

The Daily Stoic. Dec 23rd. What are you so afraid of loosing? P379.

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Artists:

Robert Adams

Lewis Baltz

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Joe Deal

Frank Gohlke

Nicholas Nixon

John Schott

Stephen Shore

Henry Wessel, Jr.

It fundamentally changed landscape photography, giving artists permission to photograph the "ugly" and ordinary.

Influenced subsequent movements, notably the Dusseldorf School of Photography (Struth, Gursky, Höfer)

Japanese Photographers

Toshio Shibata ( Shibata Toshio): Known for photographing dams, roads, and concrete structures, showing the dialogue between nature and engineering with a distinctly Japanese feel.

Naoya Hatakeyama: Explored the violent extraction of landscapes (lime quarries) and urban development, connecting rural and urban processes.

Rinko Kawauchi: While more dreamlike, her focus on ordinary things and quiet moments shares the New Topographics spirit of finding significance in the everyday.

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"The act of expression is the ceaseless process of rendering the invisible visible. That which is visible, that with structures the everyday, passes for reality. The act of expression requires a transition from a world of apparent certainties to a world in which we cannot even locate ourselves."

From The History of the Photo book Volume 1, Provocative materials for thought, the postwar Japanese photo book.