Nikken Sekkei
Subtitle: Building Future Japan, 1900-2000
Contributors: Kenneth Frampton (Introduction)
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: September 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780847822461
Subjects: Individual architects; Nikken Sekkei, Kabushiki Kaisha; Individual Architect; Individual Architectural Firms; Architecture; Nikken Sekkei, Kabushiki Kaish; Japan; Architectural Firms; History - General; International Architecture - Asian; Architecture / Individual Architect; Architecture / Professional Practice; 20th century; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This volume examines Nikken Sekkei's finest displays of architectural refinement, elegance, and bravura from 1990 to the present. Botond Bognar provides an authoritative and thorough history of the firm's achievements since the beginning of the century, focusing on such important recent works as the Islamic Development Bank Headquarters, Jeddah; the Keyence Corporation Head Office and Laboratory Building, Osaka; and the Education and Cultural Center "Cairo Opera House"."--BOOK JACKET.