S1.6 Nitschke_ReadingResponse_SJOGREN

It is interesting the distinction Nitschke makes between the awareness of form and non-form being slightly different to object and space, in regards to Japanese vs. “western” thought. Ma, a consciousness of place that is capable of “holding” and experiential, as opposed to physical enclosure.

I’m baffled by the reductionist and “surprised” depiction  of the Japanese by Nitschke who makes it sound like the Japanese were utterly incapable of complex design or construction as if all of the different village typologies he listed weren’t completely identical yet older than European and global west villages.