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Seoul - one of the most densely populated urban areas on the planet. The tremendous pressure this megacity exacts on architecture in terms of spatial intensification, verticalization and amplification, challenges architectural stereotypes and promotes innovation. Megacity Network presents 32 projects by 16 representative Korean architects from the last ten years. Being(...)
mars 2008, Berlin
Contemporary Korean architecture
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Seoul - one of the most densely populated urban areas on the planet. The tremendous pressure this megacity exacts on architecture in terms of spatial intensification, verticalization and amplification, challenges architectural stereotypes and promotes innovation. Megacity Network presents 32 projects by 16 representative Korean architects from the last ten years. Being more like mixtures and hybrids of conventional typologies, these projects range from traditional timber-structure houses to commercial and sports buildings, each one of them meeting the demands of Seoul´s electric urban landscape in its own way. Essays on the urban and architectural background complete the book, making it an exciting overview on the largely unknown new Korean architecture.
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Big Bang Beijing
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The urban landscape in Beijing is changing in a dramatic and mind boggling tempo; an urban condition may cease to exist one day only to be replaced by another completely different one in a short matter of time. This study presents a selection of categorized images, in order to tell a story about Beijing – a story about the mutation of different styles. Filled(...)
décembre 2007, Tokyo
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The urban landscape in Beijing is changing in a dramatic and mind boggling tempo; an urban condition may cease to exist one day only to be replaced by another completely different one in a short matter of time. This study presents a selection of categorized images, in order to tell a story about Beijing – a story about the mutation of different styles. Filled predominantly with coloured photographs, the book also includes short essays and contributions from various contributors including; Hiromasa Shirai, André Schmidt, Charles Berman and Rem Koolhaas.
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Among the works collected in this book, many are designs of excellent young and middle-aged architects, whose names perhaps the world has yet to be acquainted with. Here, we hope that this book could serve as an opportunity for people to come to understand their works and thoughts. And I also hope that they can create more and better works in the future.
Tjad Tonngji University 1998-2007
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Among the works collected in this book, many are designs of excellent young and middle-aged architects, whose names perhaps the world has yet to be acquainted with. Here, we hope that this book could serve as an opportunity for people to come to understand their works and thoughts. And I also hope that they can create more and better works in the future.
Mad Dinner
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"In China, we like to sit around a big round table for dinner. We place our dishes on a big spinning disk in the center of the table so that we can all reach the food. Everyone, whether or not he or she has anything to say, and every discussion, whether it is important or not, has an equal place around the table. We hope to have such a dinner and to invite to our table(...)
janvier 2008, Barcelona
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"In China, we like to sit around a big round table for dinner. We place our dishes on a big spinning disk in the center of the table so that we can all reach the food. Everyone, whether or not he or she has anything to say, and every discussion, whether it is important or not, has an equal place around the table. We hope to have such a dinner and to invite to our table those who don't usually come together in real life to share their experiences, opinions, and observations. Their concerns are really also our concerns." Mad Dinner MAD is a Beijing-based studio that has won numerous international design competitions, including the Absolute Tower in Toronto. Divided thematically, the book looks at MADs designs to illustrate the freedoms and limitations of the worlds fastest growing urbanization. It explores idealism and free market realities, the role of the media and cultural icons, enacting change in Chinas political landscape, and projects for environmental protection. A journalistic approach with a series of interviews reconnects architecture to the daily cultural landscape: A taxi driver speaks on China's economy, a doctor describes his ideal architecture.
Minka, my farmhouse in Japan
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In 1959 the journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After musing offhandedly that he would like to one day have his own house in Japan, the family unbeknownst to John set out to grant his wish. They found Roderick a 250-year-old minka, or hand-built farmhouse, with a thatched roof(...)
novembre 2007, New York
Minka, my farmhouse in Japan
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In 1959 the journalist John Roderick joined the Tokyo bureau of the Associated Press. There, he befriended a Japanese family, the Takishitas. After musing offhandedly that he would like to one day have his own house in Japan, the family unbeknownst to John set out to grant his wish. They found Roderick a 250-year-old minka, or hand-built farmhouse, with a thatched roof and held together entirely by wooden pegs and joinery. It was about to be washed away by flooding and was being offered for only fourteen dollars. Roderick graciously bought the house, but was privately dismayed at the prospect of living in this enormous old relic lacking heating, bathing, plumbing, and proper kitchen facilities. So the minka was dismantled and stored, where Roderick secretly hoped it would stay, as it did for several years. But Roderick's reverence for natural materials and his appreciation of traditional Japanese and Shinto craftsmanship eventually got the better of him. Before long a team of experienced carpenters were hoisting massive beams, laying wide wooden floors, and attaching the split-bamboo ceiling. In just forty days they rebuilt the house on a hill overlooking Kamakura, the ancient capital of Japan. Working together, they renovated the farmhouse, adding features such as floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors and a modern kitchen, bath, and toilet. From these humble beginnings, Roderick's minka has become internationally known and has hosted such luminaries as Senator Hillary Clinton. John Roderick's architectural memoir "Minka" tells the compelling and often poignant story of how one man fell in love with the people, culture, and ancient building traditions of Japan, and reminds us all about the importance of craftsmanship and the meaning of place and home in the process.
Young asian architects
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This second volume of a new series about young architects introduces to the projects of 57 young and innovative architects from India to Australia. The book features key architectural works in the form of luscious images and insightful descriptions. An index with contact information of the architects is also enclosed.
décembre 2006, Collogne
Young asian architects
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This second volume of a new series about young architects introduces to the projects of 57 young and innovative architects from India to Australia. The book features key architectural works in the form of luscious images and insightful descriptions. An index with contact information of the architects is also enclosed.
Architecture in China
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Part of an architecture series that brings a different perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. This book features 15 to 20 architects with the focus on how they have contributed to architecture in China.
juillet 2007, Cologne
Architecture in China
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Part of an architecture series that brings a different perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. This book features 15 to 20 architects with the focus on how they have contributed to architecture in China.
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The notion of impermanence underlies, to a significant extent, the urban design language of Hong Kong. The city intensely urban environment has long reflected embedded patterns of change and temporality in both its physical and cultural dimensions, a forever reconstructed city of dislocation, adaptation and imagination. These characteristics are intrinsically interwoven(...)
The urban design of impermanence
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The notion of impermanence underlies, to a significant extent, the urban design language of Hong Kong. The city intensely urban environment has long reflected embedded patterns of change and temporality in both its physical and cultural dimensions, a forever reconstructed city of dislocation, adaptation and imagination. These characteristics are intrinsically interwoven within Hong Kong s street and spatial patterns, producing a special sense of immediacy and transience insinuated with the fabric and memory of the city. This may stem on one hand from a philosophy of change inherent in cultural traditions, but on the other it reflects more tangible aspects of the streetscape accumulated from historical imprints, regimes of temporarily, and the constant renewal and transformation of the urban environment.
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New architecture in China
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This publication describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from(...)
septembre 2009, London
New architecture in China
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This publication describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding new buildings throughout China, none completed earlier than the turn of the new millennium and some still under construction. Project-by-project entries cover every building type, from private houses and apartments to museums and art galleries; from theatres and opera houses to schools and colleges; from shops and hotels to sports arenas and exhibition halls. Internationally acclaimed architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Kisho Kurokawa, Paul Andreu, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Riken Yamamoto, I.M. Pei, Steven Holl and many others are featured alongside smaller, emerging and more local practices.
Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial(...)
Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial castles here, just homes full of light, space and serenity that show how subtly man and nature can live together.