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.
Author(s): Susanne Kohte Hubertus, Adam Daniel Hubert
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 270
City: Basel
Table of Contents
Architecture in Japan: Perceptions, developments and interconnections
Encounters
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
Positions
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
Appendix
Editors and authors
Index of names
Illustration credits
Acknowledgments
