Encounters and positions architecture in Japan / Susanne Kohte, Hubertus Adam, Daniel Hubert (eds.).
Imprint
Basal : Birkhauser, 2017
Descript
271 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plans ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Architecture in Japan: perceptions, developments and interconnections -- Encounters -- Fumihiko Maki -- Toyo Ito -- Osamu Ishiyama -- Ryoji Suzuki -- Riken Yamamoto -- Hiroaki Kimura -- Makoto Sei Watanabe -- Jun Aoki -- Hiroshi Nakao -- Sou Fujimoto -- Ryuji Nakamura -- Junya Ishigami -- Go Hasegawa -- Positions -- Cultural translations: Japanese architecture between East and West -- The Japanese contribution to modern architecture in Europe -- Between tradition and modernity: The two sides of Japanese pre-war architecture -- The traumas of modernization: Architecture in Japan after 1945 -- Japan's architectural system -- References to traditions in contemporary architecture in Japan