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Public body in crisis
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This book illustrates the Japanese contribution to the Milan Triennale 1996. Ten architects were selected to investigate and plan for the new public body and public space dor the city of the future.
January 1996, Tokyo
Public body in crisis
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This book illustrates the Japanese contribution to the Milan Triennale 1996. Ten architects were selected to investigate and plan for the new public body and public space dor the city of the future.
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January 1996, Tokyo
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A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the urban spatial politics of their respective regions, Lu Pan explores how(...)
Aestheticizing Public Space: street visual politics in east asian cities
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A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the urban spatial politics of their respective regions, Lu Pan explores how graffiti in East Asia reflects the relationship between aesthetics and politics. The book situates itself in a contested dynamic relationship among human bodies, visual modernity, social or moral norms, styles, and historical experiences and narratives. On a broader level, this book aims to shed light on how aesthetics and politics are mobilized in different contested spaces and media forms, in which the producer and the spectator change and exchange their identities.
The art of Japanese joinery
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This introduction to Japanese joinery not only delves into the unique history and development of Japanese carpentry, but also reveals many secrets of Japanese joinery. Presenting 48 joints, selected from among the several hundred known and used today.
June 1977
The art of Japanese joinery
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This introduction to Japanese joinery not only delves into the unique history and development of Japanese carpentry, but also reveals many secrets of Japanese joinery. Presenting 48 joints, selected from among the several hundred known and used today.
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The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in(...)
September 2021
Korean modern: the matter of identity. Modern architecture in an east Asian country
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The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in the construction of the nation’s identity. The architectural analyses, ranging from Hwaseong Fortress to 21st-century constructions like Paju Book City, Ssamziegil Shopping Center, the Boutique Monaco skyscraper, and the Bauzium Sculpture Museum, focus on buildings in which the formation of a specifically Korean modernism is particularly observable. The appendix includes biographical descriptions of major architectural figures.
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''Japan: nation building nature'' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of(...)
Japan: Nation building nature
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''Japan: nation building nature'' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice-versa. Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Joachim Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four stereotypical phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life, and insularity.
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This publication looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach. What are the economic, political and design mechanisms used to build and legitimise them? What city concept is designed and built in these spaces? Can we identify recurrent features,(...)
April 2022
Fun mill: The architecture of creative industry in contemporary China
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This publication looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach. What are the economic, political and design mechanisms used to build and legitimise them? What city concept is designed and built in these spaces? Can we identify recurrent features, general issues, and compositional orders and logic? The book discusses creative clusters as fertile ground for research and action involving the architectural and urban project and outlines several distinctive traits of professional and design practices in China in the last decade. In particular, the book focus on three recurrent methods used by architectural projects to reconfigure space—Collecting icons, Shifting scale, Bounding borders.
How to make a Japanese house
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Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. "How to Make a Japanese House" presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of architectural practice. From the Western perspective, in which more space is better space, small interiors may once have seemed(...)
September 2012
How to make a Japanese house
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Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. "How to Make a Japanese House" presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of architectural practice. From the Western perspective, in which more space is better space, small interiors may once have seemed undesirable, but Japanese architects have long excelled at overcoming the limitations of building in densely populated areas and creating brilliant effects of spaciousness with minimal square footage.
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This book argues that Japanese modern architecture emerged from identifiable events: political, social, economic, historical events, and is as susceptible as any other architecture to analysis and criticism in these terms. Episodic rather than encyclopaedic, this book does not describe every twist and turn in the development of modern Japanese architecture, but rather, it(...)
20th century Japan in 20 buildings
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This book argues that Japanese modern architecture emerged from identifiable events: political, social, economic, historical events, and is as susceptible as any other architecture to analysis and criticism in these terms. Episodic rather than encyclopaedic, this book does not describe every twist and turn in the development of modern Japanese architecture, but rather, it examines twenty buildings spanning the 20th century and places them in the context of the political, social and economic, as well as the historical and cultural factors that shaped both them and modern Japan. Each building has been chosen because it reflects a major event in the development of modern Japan and its architecture.
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Going back to the nineteenth century, Scriver and Srivastava look at the beginnings of modernism in colonial India and the ways that public works and patronage fostered new design practices that directly challenged the social order and values invested in the building traditions of the past. They then trace how India’s architecture embodies the dramatic shifts in Indian(...)
June 2015
India: modern architecture in history
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Going back to the nineteenth century, Scriver and Srivastava look at the beginnings of modernism in colonial India and the ways that public works and patronage fostered new design practices that directly challenged the social order and values invested in the building traditions of the past. They then trace how India’s architecture embodies the dramatic shifts in Indian society and culture during the last century. Making sense of a broad range of sources, from private papers and photographic collections to the extensive records of the Indian Public Works Department, they provide the most rounded account of modern architecture in India that has yet been available.
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Ce « Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise » est le résultat d'un projet ambitieux, porté par le réseau franco-japonais Japarchi. Elaboré depuis une demi-douzaine d'années, il a réuni soixante-quatre auteurs, tous spécialistes du Japon ou Japonais eux-mêmes, et attachés à la question si fascinante et si particulière de la spatialité au Japon. L'ouvrage s'emploie à faire(...)
Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise
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Ce « Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise » est le résultat d'un projet ambitieux, porté par le réseau franco-japonais Japarchi. Elaboré depuis une demi-douzaine d'années, il a réuni soixante-quatre auteurs, tous spécialistes du Japon ou Japonais eux-mêmes, et attachés à la question si fascinante et si particulière de la spatialité au Japon. L'ouvrage s'emploie à faire partager au lecteur, par petites touches, sous forme de 199 courts textes, les notions-clefs de la culture japonaise de l'espace, de l'architecture, des jardins, du pavillon de thé, des temples, sanctuaires shintôs et palais, autant que des simples hameaux et maisons populaires, de la ville dense ou des quartiers animés, du mobilier jusqu'aux aménagements du territoire, des origines anciennes jusqu'aux développements les plus contemporains, de l'espace pictural aux avatars de l'urbanité.Chacune de ces notices invite à découvrir ou à comprendre mieux, à visiter sur le terrain les lieux et les monuments, les réalisations ou les dispositifs exemplaires, grâce notamment à une importante iconographie. Des indications savamment choisies « pour en savoir plus » permettent au lecteur de prolonger sa quête, et un ensemble d'index lui facilitent la consultation et conduisent sa recherche.