Title & Author:

Japan 2000 : architecture and design for the Japanese public / edited by John Zukowsky ; compiled by Naomi R. Pollock, Tetsuyuki Hirano, and Tetsuro Hakamada ; with essays by John Heskett [and others].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel Verlag ; Chicago : The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.

Description:

158 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name coorganized by The Art Institute of Chicago and The Japan Foundation.
Includes index.
The historical background of postwar public architecture in Japan / Hiroyuki Suzuki -- Designing for the Japanese public ; Plates / Naomi R. Pollock -- The growth of industrial design in Japan / John Heskett -- The history of Japanese design : a personal view / Takuo Hirano -- The cultural engineering of traditional local industry / Tadanori Nagasawa -- Plates / Tetsuyuki Hirano and Tetsuro Hakamada.

Summary:

"Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence in the so-called "bubble-economy" era of the 1980s. Japanese products - from automobiles to electronic equipmentwere sold in record numbers the world over, and Japanese brand names became synonymous with high quality." "Now that the boom of the 1980s has given way to a recession, what is the country's designed and built environment like, and what are the factors that determine it? This attractive volume and the traveling exhibition it accompanies seek to address these questions. Essays written by experts in their fields are accompanied by impressive color plates to present Japanese architecture and design of the 1990s to a Western readership for the first time."--Jacket.

ISBN:

379131906X
9783791319063
0865591644 (pbk.)
9780865591646 (pbk.)

Subject:

Public architecture Japan Catalogs.
Architecture Japan History 20th century Catalogs.
Design Japan History 20th century Catalogs.
Industrial design Japan History 20th century Catalogs.
Architecture publique Japon Catalogues.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues.
Design Japon Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture
Design
Industrial design
Public architecture
Bouwkunst.
Vormgeving.
Arquitetura Japão.
História do design Japão.
Public architecture Japan 20th century.
Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Decorative arts Japan History 20th century.
Industrial design Japan History 20th century.
Japan

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Zukowsky, John, 1948-
Pollock, Naomi R.
Hirano, Tetsuyuki.
Hakamada, Tetsuro.
Heskett, John.
Kokusai Kōryū Kikin.

Architecture and design for the Japanese public

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207553
Call No.: NA4367.J3 1998
Status: Available