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This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan, including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to some of the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywhere in the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurable pace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Through(...)
Instant Asia: fast foward through the architecture of a changing continent
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This book offers a survey of emergent Asian architects from India to Japan, including Philippines. The Asian continent today acts as a theatre to some of the most rapid changes in the urban environment ever to occur anywhere in the world. As cities and economies expand at an almost immeasurable pace, Asian architects face new challenges and opportunities. Through interviews, conversations, and visits to architecture studios across the continent, "Instant Asia" documents the most recent built projects of the emerging generation of designers shaping the architectural identity of Asia today.
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Beijing Time
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Deeply informed by urban theory and exhibiting an assured feel for the city, Beijing Time paints a vivid picture of Beijing's tumultuous transformations. At once anthropological and historical, and with its sights set on both the official and nonofficial city, on both urban form and urban experience, this book offers a wonderfully textured guide to contemporary Beijing,(...)
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May 2008, Cambridge, London
Beijing Time
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Deeply informed by urban theory and exhibiting an assured feel for the city, Beijing Time paints a vivid picture of Beijing's tumultuous transformations. At once anthropological and historical, and with its sights set on both the official and nonofficial city, on both urban form and urban experience, this book offers a wonderfully textured guide to contemporary Beijing, written with wit and panache. There is simply no other study quite like this. Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
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In the early 1980s, China launched the greatest building boom in human history, beginning a period of wholesale construction and destruction unlike anything the world has ever seen. There were fewer than two hundred cities in China in the late 1970s; today there are nearly seven hundred. While the United States has nine cities with more than a million residents, China now(...)
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June 2008, New York
The Concrete Dragon: China's urban revolution and what it means for the world
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In the early 1980s, China launched the greatest building boom in human history, beginning a period of wholesale construction and destruction unlike anything the world has ever seen. There were fewer than two hundred cities in China in the late 1970s; today there are nearly seven hundred. While the United States has nine cities with more than a million residents, China now has 102 such cities. And in a single decade more Chinese families have been displaced by redevelopment than by thirty years of urban renewal in the United States. The scale of this urban revolution is breathtaking: China is now home to the largest malls on earth, the biggest airport, many of the planet's tallest buildings and longest bridges, the biggest gated community, the largest bowling alley, and even the worlds largest skateboard park. China's rich urban architectural legacy is being sacrificed to make way for icons of progress and modernity.
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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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