Main entry:

Daniell, Thomas, 1967- author.

Title & Author:

An anatomy of influence / Thomas Daniell ; foreword by Thomas Weaver, afterword by Peter Cook, essays by Kazuo Shinohara, Toyo Ito, Terunobu Fujimori, Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama ; editor: Sarah Handelman.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, [2018]
©2018

Description:

292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 x 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The Rashomon effect / Thomas Weaver -- Ashes / [Daniell Thomas] -- The autonomy of house design / by Kazuo Shinohara -- Kazuo Shinohara: enigma variations / [Daniell Thomas] -- Arata Isozaki: renaissance man / [Daniell Thomas] -- Hiroshi Hara: on reflection / [Daniell Thomas] -- We ask Kiyonori Kikutake, "Teach us to outgrow our madness" / by Toyo Ito -- Toyo Ito: the fugitive / [Daniell Thomas] -- Itsuko Hasegawa: second nature / [Daniell Thomas] -- Hiromi Fujii: off grid / [Daniell Thomas] -- Under the banner of street observation / by Terunobu Fujimori -- Terunobu Fujimori: just looking / [Daniell Thomas] -- Osama Ishiyama: minority report / [Daniell Thomas] -- Shin Takamatsu: mechanism / [Daniell Thomas] -- Notes on shocking architecture / by Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama -- Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama: what's in a name? / [Daniell Thomas] -- Kengo Kuma / [Daniell Thomas] -- Kazuo Sejima: concrete abstraction / [Daniell Thomas].

Summary:

Taking inspiration from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists and Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, this book elucidates the theory and practice of a selected group of key Japanese architects by situating them within a wider cultural context of art, technology, literature, and politics. Illustrated with rarely seen images and interspersed with previously untranslated texts, the book uses biographical profiles and comparative analyses to trace the evolution of spatial, aesthetic, and behavioral concepts in Japanese architecture over the postwar decades. In particular, the political activism of architects in the 1960s and the social criticism of architects in the 1970s provide a vital source of inspiration for the protean creativity of the Japanese architectural world today.

ISBN:

9781907896965 (hardback)
1907896961 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Architecture Japan History 21st century.
Architects Japan Interviews.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Japon Histoire 21e siècle.
Architectes Japon Entretiens.
Architecture and Planning.
Architects.
Architecture.
Japan.

Form/genre:

interviews.
History.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Weaver, Thomas, writer of foreword.
Cook, Peter, 1936- writer of afterword.
Handelman, Sarah, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304121
Call No.: BIB 249601
Status: Available