Main entry:

Kaijima, Momoyo, 1969- author, interviewer. aut ivr

Title & Author:

Made in Tokyo = Meido in Tokyo / Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.

Publication:

Tokyo ; Kajima Institute Publishing Co., Ltd., 2006.

Description:

191 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, map, plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
First edition published in 2001.
"7th" (printing?).--Page 192.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-191).
(mostly from table of contents) Introduction -- Method -- 10 key words : Cross-category ; Automatic scaling ; Pet size ; Logistical urbanity ; Sportive ; By-product ; Urban dwelling ; Machine as building ; Urban ecology ; Virtual site -- Made in Tokyo: guide book : Warehouse court ; Electric passage ; Highway department store ; Cine-bridge ; Roller coaster building ; Neon building ; Pachinko cathedral ; Sex building ; Karaoke Hotel ; Expressway patrol building ; Embassies building ; Park on park ; Bus housing ; Golf taxi building ; Nama-con apartment house ; Car tower ; Horse apartment house ; Distribution complex ; Air-con building ; Billboard apartment house ; Shrine building ; Sand apartment house ; Delivery spiral ; Bath tour building ; Taxi building ; Truck tower ; Interchange court ; Double layer petrol station ; Super car school ; Sewage courts ; Supply water courts ; Graveyard tunnel ; Ameyoko flying temple ; Shopping wall/mall ; Rail Museum ; Twin deluxe sewerage gardens ; Proliferating water slides ; Ventilator obelisk ; Apartment station ; Centipede housing ; Vehicular village ; Diving tower ; Chassis apartments ; TTT (Lego office) ; Tunnel shrine ; Apartment mountain temple ; Vampire park ; Crane shelves ; Ghost rail factory ; Retaining wall apartments ; Bridge home ; Residential farm ; Dispersal terminal ; Royal golf apartments ; Car parking office ; Green parking ; Auto department store ; Family restaurant triplets ; Vegetable town ; Sprouting building ; TRC = Tokyo Dispersal Centre ; Coolroom estate ; Pet architecture 001 ; Dam housing ; Airport junction ; Sports bridge ; Sportsman zoo ; Heli-warehouse ; Carwash terrace ; Shooting graveyard -- Map -- Talk with Takashi Homma -- History -- Profile.
Also issued online.
Parallel text in Japanese and English.

Summary:

"The buildings of 'Made in Tokyo' are not beautiful. They are not perfect examples of architectural planning. They are not A-grade cultural building types, such as libraries and museums. They are B-grade building types, such as car parking, batting centres, or hybrid containers and include both architectural and civil engineering works. They are not 'pieces' designed by famous architects. What is nonetheless respectable about these buildings is that they don't have a speck of fat. What is important right now is constructed in a practical manner by the possible elements of that place. They don't respond to cultural context and history. Their highly economically efficient answers are guided by minimum effort. In Tokyo, such direct answers are expected. They are not imbued with the scent of culture; they are simply physical 'building'. Moreover, Tokyo is really such a contradictory place, because it is in fact these buildings which most clearly reflect it's quality of urban space, whereas the translation of issues of place through history and design seems like a fabrication - This is Tokyo."--Page 12.

ISBN:

4306044211 paperback
9784306044210 paperback

Subject:

Architecture Japan Tokyo 20th century.
Architecture and society Japan Tokyo.
Public architecture Japan Tokyo Pictorial works.
Multipurpose buildings Japan Tokyo Pictorial works.
Architecture Japon Tōkyō 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Japon Tōkyō.
Architecture publique Japon Tōkyō Ouvrages illustrés.
Immeubles à usages multiples Japon Tōkyō Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Buildings
Architektur
Tokyo (Japan) Buildings, structures, etc.
Japan Tokyo
Tokio

Added entries:

Kuroda, Junzō, 1968- author, interviewer.
Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu, 1965- author, interviewer.
Honma, Takashi, 1962- photographer, interviewee.

Meido in Tokyo

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250906
Call No.: NA1557.T6 K3 2006
Status: Available