Main entry:

Steele, James, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

Contemporary Japanese architecture : tracing the next generation / James Steele.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group., 2017.

Description:

xii, 290 pages ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and index.
Introduction : The (dis) continuities of Japanese architecture -- Part I. An enduring cultural framework : The land and its people -- History and religion -- Paroxysm and change -- Part II. From modernity to modernism: 1868-1940 : The search for knowledge and its consequences -- Modernism sidetracked on the road to war -- Part III. From re-birth to economic collapse : Post-war reconstruction, from survival to recovery: 1945-1950 -- The Le Corbusier syndrome -- Metabolism revisited -- Expo '70: a joyful vision of a new world -- The Shinohara School -- Postmodernism: apostasy or prophesy? -- A decade of excess: life inside the bubble -- Part IV. Transitional figures : Witness to war: Fumihiko Maki, Yoshio Tanaguchi and Arata Isozaki -- Conflicting identities: Tadao Ando, Itsuko Hasagawa, Toyo Ito, Riken Yamamoto, Chiaki Arai, and Shin Takamatsu -- Relief and rebuilding: Kazuo Sejima, Kengo Kuma and Jun Aoki -- Part V. The next generation : Doing more with less: Office in Tokyo / Atelier Bow Wow, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima ; Mosaic house / TNA, Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima ; House and garden / Ryue Nishizawa ; 2004 house / Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture ; Springtecture / Shuhei Endo -- On the surface : Morigo Office building / Togo Murano ; Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science / Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, Tezuka Architects ; Environmental Education Center in Hyogo and the Tsunami Disaster Prevention Center in Minamiawaji City / Shuhei Endo ; F-Town and the Kanno Museum in Shiogama / Hitoshi Abe ; Ginza and Shin-Yatsushiro Pavilion / Kumiko Inui ; Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza facade renewal / Jun Aoki and Associates ; Lanvin Boutique / Hiroshi Nakamura ; Romanticism shop in Hangzhou, China / Kiichiro Sako and Takeshi Ishizaka, Sako Architects ; Mt. Fuji Architects Studio, Sakura House / Masahiro and Mao Harado ; Endoh Design, natural ellipse / Masaki Endoh and Masahiro Ikeda ; House SH / Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture -- Interstitial space: the new engawa : Shisendo / Jozan Ishikawa ; Tomihiro Hoshino Museum and NYH House ; Musahino Library and House N, Oita / Sou Fujimoto ; Yomiuri Miyagi guest house and Reihoku Town Hall / Hitoshi Abe ; House in Buzen / Makoto Tanijiri, Suppose Design Office -- Reinventing modernism : Apartment house / Kumiko Inui ; NYH House / Tomohiro Yokomiz ; BUMPS and BEANS / Kiichiro Sako and Takeshi Ishizaka, Sako Architects ; Lotus Beauty Salon, Mie / Hiroshi Nakamura ; Otake, Bishamon and Kitakumakura houses / Makoto Tanijiri, Suppose Design ; Miyagi Stadium, Sendai and Saski-Gishi office building / Hitoshi Abe ; Nihonbashi and Nakagyo houses / Waro Kishi -- Technology as nature : Ring house, Karuizawa / Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima, TNA Architects ; Dancing trees, singing birds / Hiroshi Nakamura and NAP ; Fuji Kindergarten / Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, Tezuka Architects ; Kanagawa Institute of Technology / Junya Ishigami Office ; NA House / Sou Fujimoto ; Tree house / Masahiro and Mao Harada, Mt. Fuji Architects Studio -- Searching for the sublime : Tokyo apartments; wooden house, Kumamoto; Children's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation / Sou Fujimoto -- Bouno house / Hitoshi Abe ; Saragaku, Tokyo / Akihisa Hirata.

Summary:

Contemporary Japanese Architecture" presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural framework that informs the work of all Japanese architects, as an introduction to an in-depth investigation of the challenges now occupying the contemporary designers who will be the leaders of the next generation. It separates out the young generation of Japanese architects from the crowded, distinguished, multi-generational field they seek to join, and investigates the topics that absorb them, and the critical issues they face within the new economic reality of Japan and a shifting global order. Salient points in the text are illustrated by beautiful, descriptive images provided by the architects and from the extensive collection of the author. By combining illustrations with timelines and graphics to explain complex ideas, the book is accessible to any student seeking to understand contemporary Japanese architecture.

ISBN:

9781138941243 (hb ; alk. paper)
1138941247 (hb ; alk. paper)
9781138941250 (pb ; alk. paper)
1138941255 (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315673813
9781317377283 (ePub ebook)
9781317377290 (PDF ebook)
9781317377276 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

Architecture Japan History 21st century.
Architecture Japan Themes, motives.
Architecture Japon Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture Japon Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture.
Architecture Themes, motives.
Architektur
Japan.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296871
Call No.: BIB 243189
Status: Available