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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents(...)
Tokyo vernacular : common spaces, local histories, found objects
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Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Shanghai, c’est la ville mythique par excellence. Capable de se renouveler cycliquement, de se rebâtir continuellement, on pourrait la croire dans un présent absolu, comme absente à son histoire, récente ou non, comme sans mémoire. Mais ce qui était vrai au début des années 2000 ne l’est peut-être plus aujourd’hui. Ville à l’avant-garde, ville laboratoire, elle a connu(...)
Shangaï: l'ordinaire et l'exceptionnel
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Shanghai, c’est la ville mythique par excellence. Capable de se renouveler cycliquement, de se rebâtir continuellement, on pourrait la croire dans un présent absolu, comme absente à son histoire, récente ou non, comme sans mémoire. Mais ce qui était vrai au début des années 2000 ne l’est peut-être plus aujourd’hui. Ville à l’avant-garde, ville laboratoire, elle a connu des bouleversements majeurs. Au cours de cette traversée des années 1980 à nos jours, Françoise Ged nous guide dans cette ville où l’ordinaire et l’exceptionnel sans cesse se côtoient.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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The projects by ten Korean architects highlighted in this exhibition catalogue satisfied briefs that mostly called for modest and human buildings, in opposition to the large housing sectors currently being built in Seoul and many other Asian cities. Particular attentiveness to the surroundings is seen in a number of the projects, especially when inserted into a mixed(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
May 2014
Point - Counterpoint: trajectories of ten korean architects / Point - Contrepoint: trajectoires de dix architectes coréens
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The projects by ten Korean architects highlighted in this exhibition catalogue satisfied briefs that mostly called for modest and human buildings, in opposition to the large housing sectors currently being built in Seoul and many other Asian cities. Particular attentiveness to the surroundings is seen in a number of the projects, especially when inserted into a mixed urban context of old and new. The high quality of traditional workmanship is readily apparent, along with close attention to detail and specific cultural qualities. In addition to an essay by Inha Jung on correlative architecture and new urban realities, the book includes detailed project data, images and drawings.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Existe-t-il une spatialité particulière au Japon ? Pour répondre à cette question, les auteurs ont adopté différents points de vue disciplinaires : ceux de l'histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, de l'anthropologie, de la géographie culturelle, de la philosophie et de l'esthétique. Les pratiques et croyances du folklore japonais, la géomancie des villes anciennes(...)
July 2014
Dispositifs et notions de la spatialité japonaise
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Existe-t-il une spatialité particulière au Japon ? Pour répondre à cette question, les auteurs ont adopté différents points de vue disciplinaires : ceux de l'histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, de l'anthropologie, de la géographie culturelle, de la philosophie et de l'esthétique. Les pratiques et croyances du folklore japonais, la géomancie des villes anciennes jusqu'aux dispositifs de l'urbanisme contemporain, l'aménagement des jardins, de la maison ou du mobilier intérieur montrent comment s'est développée, au Japon, une culture spatiale particulière.
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Tokyo's urban landscape is full of contradictions: a densely packed megalopolis, it affords thousands of vacant spaces. This volume explores possibilities for rethinking these spaces in creative ways such as "space agencies" and various architectural interventions.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
August 2014
Tokyo void : possiblilities in absence
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Tokyo's urban landscape is full of contradictions: a densely packed megalopolis, it affords thousands of vacant spaces. This volume explores possibilities for rethinking these spaces in creative ways such as "space agencies" and various architectural interventions.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
La commune de Shanghai
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Février 1967, la Révolution culturelle est à son point d’incandescence. Shanghai bouillonne. Un groupe d’ouvriers et d’étudiants rebelles, d’abord minoritaire mais bien décidé, va réussir l’impossible : se débarrasser du vieux parti communiste local et de la municipalité somnolente, et prendre le pouvoir dans la ville. Se réclamant explicitement de la Commune de Paris,(...)
October 2014
La commune de Shanghai
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Février 1967, la Révolution culturelle est à son point d’incandescence. Shanghai bouillonne. Un groupe d’ouvriers et d’étudiants rebelles, d’abord minoritaire mais bien décidé, va réussir l’impossible : se débarrasser du vieux parti communiste local et de la municipalité somnolente, et prendre le pouvoir dans la ville. Se réclamant explicitement de la Commune de Paris, ils créent un organisme nouveau, la Commune de Shanghai. Les ouvriers et les étudiants sont maîtres de la plus grande ville industrielle de Chine. Le livre retrace presque jour par jour cette aventure unique : la montée de la révolte, les luttes internes, la résistance féroce de ceux qui s’accrochent au pouvoir en s’appuyant sur l’armée, la victoire de la Commune – et puis le recul sur ordre de Mao qui craint lui-même que l’armée le lâche. La Commune de Shanghai, qui devient Comité révolutionnaire, aura duré moins longtemps que la Commune de Paris.
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This publication covers the most innovative and inspired small houses in Japan and is split into two volumes: city and country. Featuring a total of more than 25 small-scale domestic projects categorised based on location, together the volumes form an intriguing report on how predominantly young Japanese architects approach challenging contexts and highly restricted urban(...)
Small house in Japan - city, country (2 volumes boxed)
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This publication covers the most innovative and inspired small houses in Japan and is split into two volumes: city and country. Featuring a total of more than 25 small-scale domestic projects categorised based on location, together the volumes form an intriguing report on how predominantly young Japanese architects approach challenging contexts and highly restricted urban sites. Beautifully photographed and presented with detailed drawings, project information and insights by the individual architects, the selected domiciles are a testament to Japanese design talent when striving for maximum yield through minimal means in high-density or natural surroundings.
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Although Japanese architects have to contend with very particular constraints, from tiny plots in crowded urban contexts to ever-present seismic threats, their innovative solutions to the creation of space and stable structures, combined with their close attention to materials, technology and natural light, have resulted in homes that are internationally admired. This(...)
The Japanese house reinvented
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Although Japanese architects have to contend with very particular constraints, from tiny plots in crowded urban contexts to ever-present seismic threats, their innovative solutions to the creation of space and stable structures, combined with their close attention to materials, technology and natural light, have resulted in homes that are internationally admired. This overview of fifty recently built Japanese houses includes projects by three Pritzker Prize-winners— Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima—as well as by lesser-known emerging architects. Each house is clearly illustrated with colour photographs and plans, and is lucidly described by Philip Jodidio, who has travelled extensively around Japan and is deeply familiar with these projects and their creators. His book is a demonstration of Japan’s enduring commitment to design innovation.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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A small-format textbook of traditional Japanese architecture and its terminology, this guide features clear drawings and diagrams, including isometric views and floor plans, that help users to understand every kind of architectural element. The book follows a logical progression from the entire building to the individual interior space, dissecting the traditional forms of(...)
Design parts collection in Japanese traditional style architecture
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A small-format textbook of traditional Japanese architecture and its terminology, this guide features clear drawings and diagrams, including isometric views and floor plans, that help users to understand every kind of architectural element. The book follows a logical progression from the entire building to the individual interior space, dissecting the traditional forms of roof shapes, windows, screens, doors, eaves, columns (plinths and capitals), motifs, and numerous other functional and decorative typologies.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life—territories,(...)
April 2015
Shanghai homes: palimpsests of private life
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In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life—territories, artifacts, and gossip—Li re-creates the sounds, smells, look, and feel of home over a tumultuous century. First built by British and Japanese companies in 1915 and 1927, the two homes at the center of this narrative were located in an industrial part of the former "International Settlement." Before their recent demolition, they were nestled in Shanghai's labyrinthine alleyways, which housed more than half of the city's population from the Sino-Japanese War to the Cultural Revolution. Through interviews with her own family members as well as their neighbors, classmates, and co-workers, Li weaves a complex social tapestry reflecting the lived experiences of ordinary people struggling to absorb and adapt to major historical change. These voices include workers, intellectuals, Communists, Nationalists, foreigners, compradors, wives, concubines, and children who all fought for a foothold and haven in this city, witnessing spectacles so full of farce and pathos they could only be whispered as secret histories.