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Born in 1952, Kimura Hiroaki is one of the leading architects in Japan. Working mainly in Osaka (Western Japan) area, Hiroaki is expected to be a successor of Tadao Ando, a prominent architect in Japan. Hiroaki's retro-future style inspires modern machinery and vehicles like ships, automobiles and airplanes. His mono cock structured construction of steel sheet fully(...)
December 2002, Osaka
Kimura Hiroaki : steel sheet house
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Born in 1952, Kimura Hiroaki is one of the leading architects in Japan. Working mainly in Osaka (Western Japan) area, Hiroaki is expected to be a successor of Tadao Ando, a prominent architect in Japan. Hiroaki's retro-future style inspires modern machinery and vehicles like ships, automobiles and airplanes. His mono cock structured construction of steel sheet fully capitalizes on the strength of the material. "Steel sheet house" is a long-awaited selection of Hiroaki's recent works of steel sheet houses that are quite imaginative and full of possibilities.
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Built around snatches of discussion overheard in a Beijing design studio, this book explores attitudes toward architecture in China since the opening of the Treaty Ports in the 1840s. Central to the discussion are the concepts of ti and yong, or “essence” and “form,” Chinese characters that are used to define the proper arrangement of what should be considered modern and(...)
April 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural encounters with essence and form in modern China
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Built around snatches of discussion overheard in a Beijing design studio, this book explores attitudes toward architecture in China since the opening of the Treaty Ports in the 1840s. Central to the discussion are the concepts of ti and yong, or “essence” and “form,” Chinese characters that are used to define the proper arrangement of what should be considered modern and essentially Chinese. Ti and yong have gone through various transformations--for example, from “Chinese learning for essential principles and Western learning for practical application” to “socialist essence and cultural form” and an almost complete reversal to “modern essence and Chinese form.” The book opens with a discussion of cultural developments in China in response to the forced opening to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to reform the Qing dynasty, and the Nationalist and Communist regimes. It then considers the return of overseas-educated Chinese architects and foreign influences on Chinese architecture, four architectural orientations toward tradition and modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, and the controversy over the use of “big roofs” and other sinicizing aspects of Chinese architecture in the 1950s. The book then moves to the hard economic conditions of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, when architecture was almost abandoned, and the beginning of reform and opening up to the outside world in the late 1970s and 1980s. Finally, it looks at the present socialist market economy and Chinese architecture during the still incomplete process of modernization. It closes with a prognosis for the future.
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Including an article on 'City of objects, a.k.a. city of desire' by Yung Ho Chang, one of the two contributors to the CCA's 'Urgency' lecture of this year.
October 2006, Karlsruhe / Cologne
Totalstadt. beijing case: high-speed urbanization in china
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Including an article on 'City of objects, a.k.a. city of desire' by Yung Ho Chang, one of the two contributors to the CCA's 'Urgency' lecture of this year.
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October 2006, Karlsruhe / Cologne
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.
Bombay riots
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A film poem. The author demands that the reader's imagination clothe the printed text with a continuous rhythmical flow of images and sounds.
May 2008, London
Bombay riots
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A film poem. The author demands that the reader's imagination clothe the printed text with a continuous rhythmical flow of images and sounds.
Urban China in transition
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China(...)
August 2008, Malden, Oxford, Victoria
Urban China in transition
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Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations. Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology. John R. Logan is the founder of the Urban China Research Network, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and City and Community. He was chosen Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, as well as Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. In April 2003 he was selected by American Demographics magazine as one of five social demographers whose work has most influenced his field in the last 25 years.
Sydney XXXL
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In less than 250 years Sydney has evolved from fledgling colonial outpost to thriving global city. But behind the perfect postcard images, it is a city that struggles with its own success. This is the point of departure for renowned Sydney architect Ed Lippmann, a first-hand witness to the problems that have emerged from the city’s lack of planning who offers perspectives(...)
Sydney XXXL
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In less than 250 years Sydney has evolved from fledgling colonial outpost to thriving global city. But behind the perfect postcard images, it is a city that struggles with its own success. This is the point of departure for renowned Sydney architect Ed Lippmann, a first-hand witness to the problems that have emerged from the city’s lack of planning who offers perspectives on how such issues might be avoided in the future. ‘Sydney XXXL’ digs deeply into the city’s history, charting the financial and political interests that shaped its development and identifying the key decisions that need to be made to accommodate future population growth in a more liveable, sustainable city.
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Au Japon, un fossé générationnel, voire historique, semble s’être creusé entre les images d’une architecture traditionnelle très emblématique où le bois est le matériau de prédilection, et celles plus actuelles de projets innovants où son usage se réduit, depuis l'ère Meiji, à la fin du XIXe siècle. Les auteurs présentent l'évolution des styles architecturaux à l'aide de(...)
November 2019
Le charpentier et l'architecte : une histoire de la construction en bois au Japon
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Au Japon, un fossé générationnel, voire historique, semble s’être creusé entre les images d’une architecture traditionnelle très emblématique où le bois est le matériau de prédilection, et celles plus actuelles de projets innovants où son usage se réduit, depuis l'ère Meiji, à la fin du XIXe siècle. Les auteurs présentent l'évolution des styles architecturaux à l'aide de nombreux plans et photos.
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Catalogue of the exhibition ''Sixteen Chinese Museums. Fifteen Chinese Architects''.The exhibition reflects on the role museums play as motors of progress within the socio-political and cultural landscape in China today. It simultaneously presents and enquires into this role, and the associated tasks and aims of museums and cultural spaces, against the backdrop of the(...)
Sixteen chinese museums: fifteen chinese architects
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Catalogue of the exhibition ''Sixteen Chinese Museums. Fifteen Chinese Architects''.The exhibition reflects on the role museums play as motors of progress within the socio-political and cultural landscape in China today. It simultaneously presents and enquires into this role, and the associated tasks and aims of museums and cultural spaces, against the backdrop of the global, digital, urban and demographic challenges of the 21st Century, as well as the more locally-specific concerns of heritage and identity. Taking each of sixteen museums as case studies, the exhibition focuses on a set of crucial questions. How is local and national identity defined by the museum design and curation? How does the museum function within the context of its local social and urban environment? Which form or shape was identified as being most suitable for the museum’s function and its context?
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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.