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In this book, architect François Blanciak surveys the robotic faces omnipresent in Tokyo buildings, offering an architectural taxonomy based not on the usual variables—size, material, historical style—but on the observable expressions of buildings. Are the eyes (windows) twinkling, the mouth (door) laughing? Is that balcony a howl of distress? Investigating robot(...)
Tokyoids: the robotic face of architecture
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In this book, architect François Blanciak surveys the robotic faces omnipresent in Tokyo buildings, offering an architectural taxonomy based not on the usual variables—size, material, historical style—but on the observable expressions of buildings. Are the eyes (windows) twinkling, the mouth (door) laughing? Is that balcony a howl of distress? Investigating robot aesthetics through his photographs of fifty buildings, Blanciak argues that the robot face originated in architecture—before the birth of robotics—and has played a central role in architectural history. Part photographic survey, part theoretical inquiry, the publication upends the usual approach to robotics in architecture by considering not the automation of architectural output but the aesthetic properties of the robot.
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Japanese interiors
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Exploring the art and craft of Japanese residential interiors, author Mihoko Iida provides an insider's look into the wide-ranging interior design of her country's private homes. Featuring twenty-eight exemplary residences around Japan – from urban apartments to mountain and seaside escapes – the book showcases aspirational minimalist homes alongside functional live/work(...)
Japanese interiors
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Exploring the art and craft of Japanese residential interiors, author Mihoko Iida provides an insider's look into the wide-ranging interior design of her country's private homes. Featuring twenty-eight exemplary residences around Japan – from urban apartments to mountain and seaside escapes – the book showcases aspirational minimalist homes alongside functional live/work spaces and traditional historic dwellings. Throughout, Iida demonstrates the enduring philosophy of integrating the natural landscape into the home, and details the influences and continuing evolution of Japanese interior design. The book also showcases homes designed by some of Japan's top architects, such as Kengo Kuma, nendo, Koji Fujii, Arata Endo, and Takamitsu Azuma.
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Les études réunies ici témoignent d'une commune passion pour la maison – traditionnelle ou très contemporaine –, la ville et l'espace japonais, visités par la plume des deux auteurs. Ils sont pour l'un géographe – Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau –, pour l'autre architecte et anthropologue – Philippe Bonnin. Chacun, de son côté, a poursuivi un travail obstiné d'observation, de(...)
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August 2017
Façons d'habiter au Japon - Maisons, villes et seuils
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Les études réunies ici témoignent d'une commune passion pour la maison – traditionnelle ou très contemporaine –, la ville et l'espace japonais, visités par la plume des deux auteurs. Ils sont pour l'un géographe – Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau –, pour l'autre architecte et anthropologue – Philippe Bonnin. Chacun, de son côté, a poursuivi un travail obstiné d'observation, de description, de dévoilement, d'analyse approfondie de la réalité de cette habitation japonaise, de son esthétique, des gestes, des paroles qui l'entourent. Réunir ces textes devenait un impératif pour confronter leurs approches complémentaires et décoder cette culture japonaise si passionnante.
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Les architectes japonais écrivent avec Paris une histoire singulière et méconnue, un patrimoine matériel et immatériel divers, poétique et innovant, qui rend hommage à la ville et en subvertit les codes. Cet ouvrage révèle les échanges intenses entre deux cultures, nés à la fin du XIXe siècle et incarnés, à l’heure de l’apprentissage de la modernité, par la venue de Kunio(...)
Architectures japonaises à Paris, 1867-2017
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Les architectes japonais écrivent avec Paris une histoire singulière et méconnue, un patrimoine matériel et immatériel divers, poétique et innovant, qui rend hommage à la ville et en subvertit les codes. Cet ouvrage révèle les échanges intenses entre deux cultures, nés à la fin du XIXe siècle et incarnés, à l’heure de l’apprentissage de la modernité, par la venue de Kunio Maekawa et Junzo Sakakura auprès de Le Corbusier.
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The success of any architectural project depends on the architect’s ability to depict it. Conveying architectural ideas as drawings, pictures, or models is both a critical part of the process and one that can tell us much about the design itself in a particular time or place. Over the past two decades, major new trends in architectural representation have emerged in(...)
Pictures of the floating microcosm: new representations of Japanese architecture
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The success of any architectural project depends on the architect’s ability to depict it. Conveying architectural ideas as drawings, pictures, or models is both a critical part of the process and one that can tell us much about the design itself in a particular time or place. Over the past two decades, major new trends in architectural representation have emerged in Japan, which have gained widespread attention in the western world. "Pictures of the floating microcosm" considers these trends and takes readers through their development to the present day. Olivier Meystre undertakes a critique of the design tools and mediation techniques that have been employed and reveals the very special ways of conceiving an architectural project, drawing on a wealth of new research and interviews with contemporary Japanese architects.
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Présentation de l'histoire de l'architecture japonaise depuis les destructions d'Hiroshima et Nagasaki par la bombe atomique en 1945 s'attardant sur les mutations des grandes villes japonaises à travers les enjeux urbains. Avec un point sur les réalisations de grands architectes comme Tadao Ando, Kenzo Tange et Kengo Kuma ainsi que sur les mouvements et les écoles.
Japan-ness : architecture et urbanisme au Japon depuis 1945
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Présentation de l'histoire de l'architecture japonaise depuis les destructions d'Hiroshima et Nagasaki par la bombe atomique en 1945 s'attardant sur les mutations des grandes villes japonaises à travers les enjeux urbains. Avec un point sur les réalisations de grands architectes comme Tadao Ando, Kenzo Tange et Kengo Kuma ainsi que sur les mouvements et les écoles.
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Where have all the fishballs gone? From a journalist deeply attuned to the subtleties of Hong Kong life comes "Borrowed Spaces", a chronicle of the ways in which the grassroots citizens of Hong Kong reshape their city to make up for the shortcomings of their bureaucratic government. Mango trees sprouting on roundabouts, fishball stalls and neon signs: these are just some(...)
Borrowed spaces: life between the cracks of modern kong Kong
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Where have all the fishballs gone? From a journalist deeply attuned to the subtleties of Hong Kong life comes "Borrowed Spaces", a chronicle of the ways in which the grassroots citizens of Hong Kong reshape their city to make up for the shortcomings of their bureaucratic government. Mango trees sprouting on roundabouts, fishball stalls and neon signs: these are just some of the Hong Kong icons that are casualties in the struggle to reclaim public spaces. Christopher DeWolf explores the history of Hong Kong’s urban growth through the daily tug of war between the people’s needs to express themselves and government regulations.
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Contemporary Japanese houses
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Professor Zhao Xiang, from Fukuoka University, provides indepth analyses of the historical influences of a dozen different design themes that have played a vital role in Japanese professional practice across the last six decades, such as the stereoscopic detached living mode; the new parameters for personal and traditional 'space'; the spatial responses to a modern family(...)
Contemporary Japanese houses
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Professor Zhao Xiang, from Fukuoka University, provides indepth analyses of the historical influences of a dozen different design themes that have played a vital role in Japanese professional practice across the last six decades, such as the stereoscopic detached living mode; the new parameters for personal and traditional 'space'; the spatial responses to a modern family concept; the use of 'abstract space'; and even urban guerilla housing. There are also more than 40 case studies, illustrated throughout, that serve as the strongest reflection of the rich diversity of modern houses currently trending across Japan today.
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Au Japon, la grande gare ferroviaire cristallise de multiples enjeux de la fabrique et du renouvellement des métropoles. Cet ouvrage se concentre sur la généalogie de cet équipement, du point de vue de ses mutations architecturales et urbaines dans le contexte d’une modernité désirée ou éprouvée. À l’appui de nombreux exemples illustrés, il vise à donner des clés de(...)
L'architecture des déplacements : gares ferroviaires du Japon
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Au Japon, la grande gare ferroviaire cristallise de multiples enjeux de la fabrique et du renouvellement des métropoles. Cet ouvrage se concentre sur la généalogie de cet équipement, du point de vue de ses mutations architecturales et urbaines dans le contexte d’une modernité désirée ou éprouvée. À l’appui de nombreux exemples illustrés, il vise à donner des clés de compréhension d’une forme de centralité singulière, qui allie activité et mouvement et constitue un repère structurant du paysage urbain nippon. L’originalité de ce modèle provient de la persistance, réelle ou mentale, de schémas traditionnels de pensée et pratique de la ville, au sein d’un processus de réinvention et de reconstruction permanent. Matérialisation spatiale du thème de la connexion, la grande gare japonaise marque aussi réflexions et opérations à grande échelle. La relecture d’un ensemble de projets d’architectes japonais pour Tokyo, laboratoire des années de forte croissance, décrypte cette même approche conjuguée de l’architecture des déplacements.
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Thirty years after the original Japanese edition by Fumihiko Maki and a team from Maki and Associates, an English-language version of this book is finally available. The original was based on a commissioned study on “The Desirable Living Environment” and examined Japanese urban spaces in the context of Tokyo’s rapid change and the city’s distinctive aesthetic(...)
City with a hidden past: Fumihiko Maki, Yukitoshi Wakatsuki, Hidetoshi Ohno,
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Thirty years after the original Japanese edition by Fumihiko Maki and a team from Maki and Associates, an English-language version of this book is finally available. The original was based on a commissioned study on “The Desirable Living Environment” and examined Japanese urban spaces in the context of Tokyo’s rapid change and the city’s distinctive aesthetic consciousness. In particular, the concern for surface layers, micro-topographies, and small spaces in the metropolis received special focus. With the ever-growing and new global metropolises emerging today, fundamentally different attitudes toward public domains are revealed. It is clear that old ideas no longer apply.
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