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This publication, which emanates from the "Emergent practices in South Asia" lecture series, catalogs 41 emergent architectural practices in South Asia that displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure in the public realm. The publication and lecture series aims to capture the current pulse of the region, offering a platform(...)
December 2023
Architectures of Transition: Emergent practices in South Asia
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This publication, which emanates from the "Emergent practices in South Asia" lecture series, catalogs 41 emergent architectural practices in South Asia that displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure in the public realm. The publication and lecture series aims to capture the current pulse of the region, offering a platform for dialogue among practitioners and exploring the pluralism of modes of practice.
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"20:21 - Emerging Hong Kong Architects" presents a spectrum of 20 architectural works from 20 Hong Kong architects selected from an open competition "Emerging Hong Kong Architects" organized by Hong Kong Institute of Architects in April 2003. Architects participating in the competition were asked to respond to 'architecture' amidst this complex 21st century where(...)
April 2005, Hong Kong
20:21 - Emerging Hong Kong architects
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"20:21 - Emerging Hong Kong Architects" presents a spectrum of 20 architectural works from 20 Hong Kong architects selected from an open competition "Emerging Hong Kong Architects" organized by Hong Kong Institute of Architects in April 2003. Architects participating in the competition were asked to respond to 'architecture' amidst this complex 21st century where multi-disciplinary frontiers are more obscure than ever, space topographies are transforming, and active hybridization is in the making. In the book, the architects write about their aspirations in their profession, present their views on architecture, and explore future scenarios; each of different modulations and sensibilities expressed in their own architectural language, and some articulated through the exploration process with various art forms. In a joint effort to navigate through the vista of architecture, this is the first publication from Hong Kong Institute of Architects bringing together a multitude of the established, the upcoming and the heretofore unknown young architects in Hong Kong. Publication in English and Chinese.
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Born in 1952, Kimura Hiroaki is one of the leading architects in Japan. Working mainly in Osaka (Western Japan) area, Hiroaki is expected to be a successor of Tadao Ando, a prominent architect in Japan. Hiroaki's retro-future style inspires modern machinery and vehicles like ships, automobiles and airplanes. His mono cock structured construction of steel sheet fully(...)
December 2002, Osaka
Kimura Hiroaki : steel sheet house
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Born in 1952, Kimura Hiroaki is one of the leading architects in Japan. Working mainly in Osaka (Western Japan) area, Hiroaki is expected to be a successor of Tadao Ando, a prominent architect in Japan. Hiroaki's retro-future style inspires modern machinery and vehicles like ships, automobiles and airplanes. His mono cock structured construction of steel sheet fully capitalizes on the strength of the material. "Steel sheet house" is a long-awaited selection of Hiroaki's recent works of steel sheet houses that are quite imaginative and full of possibilities.
Urban China in transition
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China(...)
August 2008, Malden, Oxford, Victoria
Urban China in transition
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology. John R. Logan is the founder of the Urban China Research Network, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and City and Community. He was chosen Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, as well as Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. In April 2003 he was selected by American Demographics magazine as one of five social demographers whose work has most influenced his field in the last 25 years.
China's Turn
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If past centuries belonged to Europe and much of the last century has been dominated by America, then now it is China’s turn. For decades, the nation has experienced unprecedented economic growth, and it managed to evade the West’s economic recession. It has gained a significant economic presence in nearly every part of the world. Yet China is now in the midst of an(...)
January 2016
China's Turn
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If past centuries belonged to Europe and much of the last century has been dominated by America, then now it is China’s turn. For decades, the nation has experienced unprecedented economic growth, and it managed to evade the West’s economic recession. It has gained a significant economic presence in nearly every part of the world. Yet China is now in the midst of an economic slowdown, which impacts its architecture, urban planning, and infrastructure, both at home and abroad. Nanne de Ru and Hans Ibelings undertake a closer examination of this process, with reports from Canada, Portugal, Angola, South Africa, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Central and South America.
India: the urban transition
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Based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India, Henrik Valeur discusses some of the problems related to the urban transition of India, including air pollution, contamination and depletion of fresh water resources, its precarious food situation, the lack of proper housing, and various environmental and human health problems related to motorized(...)
India: the urban transition
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Based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India, Henrik Valeur discusses some of the problems related to the urban transition of India, including air pollution, contamination and depletion of fresh water resources, its precarious food situation, the lack of proper housing, and various environmental and human health problems related to motorized transportation. He proposes a number of possible solutions, including the use of plants and natural ventilation to create clean indoor air, the revitalisation of an existing system of water canals, the creation of vertical kitchen gardens, a strategy for making an entire neighbourhood car-free and a design for self-designed, low-cost housing.
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A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the urban spatial politics of their respective regions, Lu Pan explores how(...)
Aestheticizing Public Space: street visual politics in east asian cities
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A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the urban spatial politics of their respective regions, Lu Pan explores how graffiti in East Asia reflects the relationship between aesthetics and politics. The book situates itself in a contested dynamic relationship among human bodies, visual modernity, social or moral norms, styles, and historical experiences and narratives. On a broader level, this book aims to shed light on how aesthetics and politics are mobilized in different contested spaces and media forms, in which the producer and the spectator change and exchange their identities.
Japanese residence
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Japanese residential buildings are known for their beautiful and cutting-edge designs, green building materials, and rugged construction quality. Japanese people boldly accept innovative design, and the academic community has greatly encouraged the innovation of residences. This has provided excellent conditions for a large number of Japanese architects to experiment with(...)
Japanese residence
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Japanese residential buildings are known for their beautiful and cutting-edge designs, green building materials, and rugged construction quality. Japanese people boldly accept innovative design, and the academic community has greatly encouraged the innovation of residences. This has provided excellent conditions for a large number of Japanese architects to experiment with new approaches, and has led to Japanese housing design being a model for other countries. This book brings together more than 60 distinctive Japanese residential and interior designs. These projects illustrate designers who pay great attention to people's daily lives.
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''Japan: nation building nature'' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of(...)
Japan: Nation building nature
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''Japan: nation building nature'' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice-versa. Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Joachim Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four stereotypical phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life, and insularity.
What is co-dividuality?: post-individual architecture, shared houses and other stories of openness
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This book explores the concept of co-dividuality, an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of postindividualism, social media, and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current experimentation in Japanese architecture and presents thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design(...)
June 2020
What is co-dividuality?: post-individual architecture, shared houses and other stories of openness
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This book explores the concept of co-dividuality, an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of postindividualism, social media, and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current experimentation in Japanese architecture and presents thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design reflections. In addition to their private room, the co-tenants have large common areas where they can practice urban farming, create a start-up, cook together, or experience new spatial ergonomics. The book offers an overview not only on domestic space but also on projects characterized by a multifarious mix between public and private spheres. 'What Is Co-dividuality?' reflects on how we might want to live tomorrow. The book includes projects by Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Satoko Shinohara, Ayano Uchimura, Taichi Kuma, Junya Ishigami, Suppose Design, Naruse Inokuma, and Masuda + Otsubo, among others.