Kondo AriyukiDepartment of Human Environment Design Professor Course of Human Environment Design Professor |
Ariyuki Kondo, PhD (Edin.), born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971, read architectural design at the School of Art and Design of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, then pursued postgraduate study in architectural history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 2001. After taking up several academic posts in Japan, he has, since 2012, been Professor of History of British Art and Architecture at Ferris University, Yokohama, Japan. He has translated Sir Kenneth Clark’s The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste into Japanese, and his publications on the subject of the history of eighteenth- to twentieth-century British art, architecture and design include Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment (Pickering & Chatto, 2012 & Routledge, 2016). His recent research mainly focuses on the principles of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s histories of art, architecture and design, from Pevsner’s emphasis on the role of the Zeitgeist in the development of Western art and design to the impact of his multi-cultural, transnational background on his extensive writings on design for everyday use from a social reformer’s point of view.