World Observation: Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Ito Chuta

Longlist, Jan van Gelder Prize, Dutch Society for Art History

World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan into existing world histories, legitimate Japanese colonial expansion, and train observers to see the worl...