Encounters and positions : architecture in Japan / Susanne Kohte, Hubertus Adam, Daniel Hubert (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohte, Susanne, editor.

Adam, Hubertus, 1965- editor.

Hubert, Daniel (Architect), editor.

Standardized Title:

Dialoge und Positionen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Japan.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhauser, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle japanische Architektur, ihre Gestaltungskonzepte sowie ihre vielfältigen Bezüge. Dreizehn Architekten stellen in Interviews und anhand exemplarischer Entwürfe ihre Entwurfsmethodologien vor und geben Einblicke in die Grundlagen und Hintergründe ihres Schaffens; darunter junge Architekten, die aktuell international Bekanntheit erlangt haben, Architekten, die innerhalb der japanischen Architektur eigenständige Haltungen vertreten, sowie die Pritzkerpreisträger Toyo Ito und Fumihiko Maki.Das Buch zeigt, wie sich die Architekten auf Ästhetik, Raumkonzeptionen sowie Tradition in Japan - und ausserhalb - beziehen. Darüber hinaus vermitteln sechs ergänzende Texte Grundlagen und Geschichte der japanischen Architektur.

Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making cross-references to Japan’s architectural history, and explaining current lines of development. The book thus combines a self-reflective approach with an outsider’s analytical view.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Architecture in Japan: Perceptions, developments and interconnections

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

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

Editors and authors

Index of names

Illustration credits

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-0356-0846-6

OCLC:

980846678