Fernando Távora’s Japan through books: A fascination with tradition in search of innovation

• João Miguel Couto Duarte ^[1] ; Maria João Moreira Soares ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

     Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

     Socorro, Portugal

     
• Localización: Tradition and Innovation / Mário Say Ming Kong (aut.), Aleksander Józef Olszewski (aut.), Martin Simonson (aut.), Andreia Garcia (aut.), Jorge Nunes (aut.), José Lopes Morgado (aut.), Santi Centineo (aut.), Andrea Iezzi (aut.), Irina Seits (aut.), Taisia S. Paniotova (aut.), Maxim Romanenko (aut.), Valdomiro Ceolin (aut.), Francisco Oliveira (aut.), Margarida Louro (aut.), Carla Chiarantoni (aut.), António Leite (aut.), Denise Gaudiot (aut.), João Pernão (aut.), Laura Martins (aut.), Andre Santos (aut.), Catarina Rosa e Silva de Albuquerque (aut.), Jéssica Costa (aut.), Ljiljana Čavić (aut.), Leonardo Barros (aut.), Maria Luisa Trindade Bestetti (aut.), Mariana Alves da Silva do Nascimento (aut.), Maria Madalena Aguiar da Cunha Matos (aut.), Maria da Luz Sampaio (aut.), Clara Vale (aut.), João B. Menezes de Sequeira (aut.), Artur Renato Ortega (aut.), Silvana Weihermann (aut.), Eduardo Francisco Durao Antunes (aut.), Pedro Miguel Gomes Januario (aut.), Paulo Jorge Garcia Pereira (aut.), Verner Monteiro (aut.), Maísa Veloso (aut.), Bárbara Silva (aut.), Mário Bruno Cruz (aut.), Clara Germana Gonçalves (aut.), Maria João Moreira Soares (aut.), Joao Miguel Couto Duarte (aut.), Raffaella Maddaluno (aut.), João Silva Jordão (aut.), María da Soledade Gómez Paiva de Sousa (aut.), Miguel Baptista Bastos (aut.), Alex Nogueira Rezende (aut.), José Vitor Correia (aut.), Ana Vasconcelos (aut.), José Cabral Dias (aut.), Eneida Kuchpil (aut.), Kate O’Connor (aut.), Sandra da Mouta Brito (aut.), Madalena Pinto Da Silva (aut.), Helena Paula Abreu de Carvalho (aut.), Marta Labastida (aut.), Maria Eunice da Costa Salavessa (aut.), José Tadeu Marques Aranha (aut.), Viviana Sofia Hipólito Frutuoso (aut.), Amilcar de Gil Pires (aut.), Wenyu Qi (aut.), João Guerreirinho (aut.), Hirbod Norouzianpour (aut.), David Weiss (aut.), Calogero Montalbano (aut.), José Silveira Dias (aut.), Fernando Moreira da Silva (aut.), Ana Moreira da Silva (aut.), Caio Marcelo Miolo de Oliveira (aut.), Rita Almendra (aut.), Ana Rita Lourenço (aut.), Tiago Perez Leitão Maciel (aut.), António Gorgel Pinto (aut.), Alberto Cruz Reaes Pinto (aut.), Gizela Horvath (aut.), Maria João Castro (aut.), António Canau (aut.), Szymon Wróbel (aut.), Isabel Gomes de Almeida (aut.), Guilherme Borges Pires (aut.), Kim Groop (aut.), María do Rosário Pimentel (aut.), Rodolfo Nogueira da Cruz (aut.), Maria Leonor García da Cruz (aut.), Olinda Kleiman (aut.), Ana Paula Avelar (aut.), Fernando Jorge Oliveira Ribeiro (aut.), Mário Carlos Fernandes Avelar (aut.), Angélica Varandas (aut.), Maria de la Salette da Costa Loureiro (aut.), Margarida Rendeiro (aut.), Raúl Montero Gilete (aut.), Eduardo M. Raposo (aut.), Gonçalo Falcão (aut.), Paulo Simões (aut.), Ana Cristina dos Santos Guerreiro (aut.), Maria da Graça dos Santos Antunes Moreira (aut.), Ana Pereira Neto (aut.), Ana Isabel Runa (aut.), Iuliana Borbely (aut.), Ermanno Aparo (aut.), Liliana Soares (aut.), Paula Maria Vieira Reaes Pinto (aut.), 2021, ISBN 9780429297786
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  • Amongst the private library of the Porto architect Fernando Távora (1923–2005), an obligatory figure, if one wants to understand Portuguese architecture in the latter half of the 20th century, are several books on Japan and its architecture. Taken together, the books reveal a sustained interest in this subject matter, an interest which had begun when Távora was still a student of architecture and for which his visit to Japan in 1960 was to be decisive for its consolidation and deepening. In an initial phase, he became interested in contemporary Japanese architecture and the Western architecture that absorbed it, but traditional Japanese architecture became a more permanent object of interest for him. Here one can identify a fascination with tradition, whereby tradition is understood, in a broader sense, as permanence – of values and architectural practices. However, there is also undeniably a search for innovation, whereby innovation is understood in an equally full sense, as the creation of the new, a new way of architecture dealing with modernity.Proceeding from Japan and its architecture as revealed in his books, a completely new approach, this chapter sets out to discuss the extent of Távora’s fascination with tradition as a reflection of his search for innovation.