Abstract
Japan has almost completely gone to ashes during the World War II. It has striven to recover from the damage it suffered, and has experienced extensive changes in various aspects. Those changes are most remarkable in recent years, which we can perhaps call a metamorphosis. Past values are being discarded, and various new ideas are emerging. Is it however right to say that we are moving toward a new era? Or are we just losing the guidepost that has long directed us? As regards our research accomplishments, have we succeeded in changing the environment in compliance with what we had found and proposed? Or is it just that we have not yet succeeded in finding effective alternatives to tradition? Present paper attempts to examine the issue from several distinctive viewpoints, and suggests possible alternatives for solution. It will first discuss the social aspect, the aging of Japanese population, then go into the issue of changing the built environment, and finally examine the possible solutions through the change of educational system in architecture, notably computerization.
