Contemporary Japanese architects : profiles in design / Igarashi Taro ; translated by David Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Igarashi, Tarō, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Igarashi, Tarō, 1967-

Noble, David, translator.

Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Japan library.

Standardized Title:

Gendai Nihon kenchikuka retsuden. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Japan--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Architects.

History.

Japan.

Architecture--Japan--History--21st century.

Architects--Japan.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Architects play an essential role in contemporary society, helping to shape the environment in which we live and work. This book explores how architects in Japan have responded to the demands of their times and how they continue to engage with new economic realities and the shifting global order. The moving image of Japanese society is reflected in the work of the architects profiled tin this book: from the generation rising from the ashes of postwar Japan, through the postwar economic boom, to the generation that quietly gathered strength during the recession of the 1970s; from the generation that debuted in the bubble economy of the 1980s to the generation that began their work after the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and the collapse of the bubble economy; and finally, after decades of economic stagnation, to the generation that has come to the fore since the early twenty-first century. Contemporary Japanese architects have pioneered developments in sustainability and introduced engineering innovations that have changed not only the look of modern buildings but the ways in which they can be constructed. Japanese design concepts, realized in major public buildings around the world, communicate with a global audience and contribute toward shaping our shared future" -- Unedited summary from book.

Contents:

I. Rising from the ashes : the Prewar generation

Tange Kenzō : a national architect in the era of Greater East Asia

Kurokawa Kishō : buddhism and metabolism

Isozaki Arata : an architect torn beteween fiction and reality

II. Breaking out of the box : the generation born in the 1940s

Andō Tadao : geometries of concrete, reflecting the environment

Itō Toyoo : a new architecture for the information age

Sakamoto Kazunari : free architecture, or the constructivion of overlapping systems

Fujimori Terunobu : the comparable architect(ural historian)

Iijima Naoki : at the boundaries of interior design

III. A light and transparent architecture : the generation born in the 1950s

Sanaa : design reconfiguring spatial form

Sejima Kazuyo : distorting distance through a glass landscape

Nishizawa Ryūe : an architecture beyond images and words

Kuma Kengo : high-speed gamer

IV. Adapting to change conditions : the generation born in the 1960s

Atelier Bow-Wow : post-bubble Japanese realism

Abe Hitoshi : architecture as media suit

Tezuka architects : straight modern, or the strength of architecture

Endō Shūei : geometries for measuring the Earth

V. Globalism or galapagos : the generation born in the 1970s

Fujimoto Sou : toward a new geometry

Ishigami Jun'ya : weightless landscapes, spaces of relativity

Principles and Phenomena : looking to the future.

Notes:

Originally published in Japanese as Gendai Nihon Kenchikuka Retsuden by Kawade Shobō Shinsha in 2011.

Includes new preface for English edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-302).

Related Work:

Igarashi, Tarō, 1967- Gendai Nihon kenchikuka retsuden. English

ISBN:

9784866580210

4866580216

OCLC:

1030443337