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Urban and Architectural History Lab
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The lab investigates ancient Roman sites and castles to read the history of cities and architecture.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading the history of cities and architecture by studying sites and buildings
The Urban and Architectural History Lab studies the history of cities and architecture by investigating ancient Roman urban sites, castles, and more.
It conducts field surveys at sites such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia in Italy and Akoris in Egypt, and is also digitizing sites with laser scanners.
The lab has also carried out research involving measured surveys of samurai and commoner houses from the Edo to Meiji periods in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Architectural and Urban History Lab."
Key terms
- Laser scanner
- A device that uses lasers to measure the shape of sites and buildings and turn it into 3D data
- Nawabari (castle layout)
- The form of a castle, made up of enclosures (kuruwa), moats, earthen ramparts, stone walls, and so on
NewsLab news
Conducted a joint survey of Rome's Aurelian Walls with the Archaeological Superintendency of Rome
Carried out the 2024 survey at Herculaneum
Carried out the 2024 survey at Ostia
Carried out surveys at Pompeii, including the digitization of the House of the Labyrinth
ResearchResearch themes
By investigating the sites and buildings that remain in the field, the lab seeks to clarify the history of cities and architecture. It works on the digitization of sites and on field surveys, targeting ancient Roman urban sites, quarries in Egypt, castles, and more.
*Illustrative imageDigitizing ancient sites
The lab makes full use of multiple scanners to digitize ancient sites. The 3D data of the sites is published on the lab's website.
*Illustrative imageAncient Roman cities and houses
The lab conducts field surveys at the ancient Roman urban sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia in Italy, studying ancient houses and city walls from the perspectives of architectural history and urban history. It emphasizes understanding ancient Roman houses within their society and culture, taking archaeology and philology into account.
*Illustrative imageAncient quarries in Egypt
Based on excavations at the Akoris site in Egypt, the lab studies quarries from antiquity to the early medieval period from the perspectives of the history of production and the history of technology.
*Illustrative imageReading history from castle layouts (nawabari)
The lab studies the form of a castle (nawabari), made up of enclosures (kuruwa), moats, earthen ramparts, and stone walls, as a historical source for understanding the workings of society. It focuses on the differences between castles built by newly risen daimyo affiliated with Toyotomi and those built by old-established daimyo families in the southwestern region.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYoshiki Hori
- Assistant ProfessorTakashi Kijima
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Kumamoto Castle 02n3200” 663highland / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Digitizing ancient sites: “BATEN ZAMMOUR Archaeological Site 04” Houss 2020 / CC0 (cropped)
- Ancient Roman cities and houses: “Atrium of the House of the Small Fountain Pompeii Walk” Mary Harrsch / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ancient quarries in Egypt: “Schiaparelli's excavations - Aswan, Stone quarry, 1914, photo 2 of 3 - Archivio fotografico Museo Egizio, Turin C01501” 作者不詳 / CC0 (cropped)
- Reading history from castle layouts (nawabari): “Stone wall of Tachibana Castle Ruins” Heartoftheworld / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市空間学研究室): “Lublin Old Town Skyline” Max Dziekański / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (都市計画学研究室): “DL SLICER” Ulzhanbis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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デザイン学研究室): “The pedestrian street of Dionisiou Areopagitou on May 1, 2020” George E. Koronaios / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (建築材料学研究室): “Beton Val Mulin AG Concrete plant, Switzerland (Ank Kumar, Infosys Limited) 01” Ank Kumar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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