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).
Contents:
Globalism or Galapagos : the generation born in the 1970s. Principles and phenomena : looking to the future. A national architect in the era of Greater East Asia / Ishigami Jun'ya -- Buddhism and metabolism / Kurokawa Kishō -- An architect torn between fiction and reality / Isozaki Arata. Breaking out of the box : the generation born in the 1940s. Geometries of concrete, reflecting the environment / Andō Tadao -- New architecture for the information age / Itō Toyoo -- Free architecture, or the construction of overlapping systems / Sakamoto Kazunari -- The incomparable architect(ural historian) / Fujimori Terunobu -- At the boundaries of interior design / Iijima Naoki. A light and transparent architecture : the generation born in the 1950s. Design reconfiguring spatial form / Sanaa -- Distorting distance through a glass landscape / Sejima Kazuyo -- An architecture beyond images and words / Nishizawa Ryūe -- High-speed gamer / Kuma Kengo -- Adapting to changing conditions : the generation born in the 1960s. Post-bubble Japanese realism / Atelier Bow-Wow -- Architecture as media suit / Abe Hitoshi -- Straight modern, or the strength of architecture / Tezuka Architects -- Geometries for measuring the Earth / Endō Shūei. Globalism or Galapagos : the generation born in the 1970s. Toward a new geometry / Fujimoto Sou -- Weightless landscapes, spaces of relativity / Ishigami Jun'ya -- Principles and phenomena : looking to the future.
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.
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