Contemporary Japanese architects : profiles in design /
Igarashi, Tarō,1967-author.
Noble, David,translator.
Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan,publisher.
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).
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 between 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 construction of overlapping systems -- Fujimori Terunobu : the incomparable 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 changing 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.
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Gendai Nihon kenchikuka retsuden.