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This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities. These responses also demonstrate the new wave of architectural practice in Japan, focused on the challenges of degrowth. The shrinking and aging of the population(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
October 2024
Revitalizing Japan: Architecture, Urbanization, and Degrowth
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This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities. These responses also demonstrate the new wave of architectural practice in Japan, focused on the challenges of degrowth. The shrinking and aging of the population is exacerbating the social decline in the regional cities of Japan. While excluded from the market-driven metropolitan areas, architects of the young generation are beginning to build ways of revitalizing regional cities through innovative design or new ways of practicing. This book features works by seven named or unnamed younger architects in Japan that preempt architectural responses to the post-growth condition, a gripping essay by community designer Ryo Yamazaki, and a captivating photo documentation by Kenta Hasegawa. Keynote essay by Toyo Ito.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Thirty of the world's most talented architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed for themselves over the past decade in Architects' Houses. What inspired them, what were the constraints, how did their concepts take shape? Michael Webb explores the creative process and traces the influence of(...)
Architects' houses
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Thirty of the world's most talented architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed for themselves over the past decade in Architects' Houses. What inspired them, what were the constraints, how did their concepts take shape? Michael Webb explores the creative process and traces the influence of architects' houses over the past two hundred years, from Jefferson's Monticello to the creations of Charles and Ray Eames, Toyo Ito, and Frank Gehry. Texts, sketches, and plans illustrate houses that differ widely, in size, material, character, and location. Spacious or frugal, ambitious or modest, refined or rough-edged, daring or reductive, these adventurous dwellings make a statement. This generously illustrated book brims with ideas and inspiration as these architects' houses show different answers to the question: how can a house enrich lives and its natural surroundings?
Residential Architecture
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A contemporary reminder of the importance of the carpenter and wood in Japanese architecture. When Japanese architecture is mentioned today, images of temples or pagodas generally come to mind. Others may think of more contemporary works: massive modular walls of rough concrete poured in place and bearing imprints of their formwork in the manner of Ando Tadao, the(...)
Architectural Theory
April 2022
The carpenter and the architect
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A contemporary reminder of the importance of the carpenter and wood in Japanese architecture. When Japanese architecture is mentioned today, images of temples or pagodas generally come to mind. Others may think of more contemporary works: massive modular walls of rough concrete poured in place and bearing imprints of their formwork in the manner of Ando Tadao, the lighter structures of Ito Toyo and Sejima Kazuyo, or the finely wrought facades of Kuma Kengo. A generational chasm and, rather surprisingly, even a historical one seems to have opened up between the emblematic images of traditional Japanese architecture, in which wood is the material of choice, and more current and innovative work, in which its use has been reduced. Even though the carpenter has long been the lead builder, contemporary architectural culture appears to have forgotten this reservoir of construction experience accumulated over centuries.
Architectural Theory
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La villa Noailles a souhaité arrêter un instant Iwan Baan, un étonnant voyageur qui ne cesse de parcourir la planète pour repérer et capturer certaines architectures du temps présent, afin de saisir la vie qui se déroule avec elles. Ces 52 regards photographiques sur 52 semaines sont autant d'étapes de son parcours sans fin autour du globe. Ce qui l'intéresse, c'est(...)
Iwan Baan: autour du monde, journal d'une année d'architecture / around the world, diary of a year of architecture
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La villa Noailles a souhaité arrêter un instant Iwan Baan, un étonnant voyageur qui ne cesse de parcourir la planète pour repérer et capturer certaines architectures du temps présent, afin de saisir la vie qui se déroule avec elles. Ces 52 regards photographiques sur 52 semaines sont autant d'étapes de son parcours sans fin autour du globe. Ce qui l'intéresse, c'est cette vie qui se joue dans et autour de ces nouveaux édifices tels que le 1 1 1 1 des architectes Herzog & de Meuron à Miami, ou l'Académie des arts de Wang Shu en Chine, mais aussi le musée Knut Hamsun en Norvège de Steven Holl, l'opéra Za-Koenji de Toyo Ito à Tokyo... Ces architectes, et d'autres, témoignent généreusement ici du rôle singulier tenu par Iwan Baan dans la photographie d'architecture ainsi que des liens en mutation entre les deux disciplines.
Photography monographs
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In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before This survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers an overview of exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid(...)
The new mathematics of architecture
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In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before This survey of forty-six international projects, compiled and written by leading architects of digital design, offers an overview of exciting manifestations of these new processes through accessible illustrations, lucid texts, hands-on experience and constructed projects. The result is a compendium of the thinking and building behind today’s most exciting architecture. MINIFIE NIXON / FOSTER + PARTNERS / JOHN PICKERING / ANTONI GAUDÍ /INGENHOVEN ARCHITECTS / GEHRY PARTNERS / KOHN PEDERSEN FOX / LAB ARCHITECTURE STUDIO / ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL / OCEAN NORTH / BIOTHING / ARUP AGU / PTW ARCHITECTS / HENEGHAN PENG / DANIEL LIBESKIND / ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL / FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS / ARATA ISOZAKI / COX ARCHITECTS / TOYO ITO / UN STUDIO / DECOI ARCHITECTS / PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS / GREG LYNN / MCBRIDE CHARLES RYAN / HAKES ASSOCIATES / CLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE / KARRES EN BRANDS / NOX ARCHITECTS / SERVO / ASYMPTOTE / HYPERBODY RESEARCH GROUP / CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI
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Serpentine gallery pavillons
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Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions - temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a show-place for exhibitions of modern and contemporary(...)
Serpentine gallery pavillons
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Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions - temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a show-place for exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists. The projects completed or envisaged include the work of: Zaha Hadid, 2000; Daniel Libeskind, 2001; Toyo Ito, 2002; Oscar Niemeyer, 2003; MVRDV, 2004 (un-realised); Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, 2005; Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, 2006; Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007; Frank Gehry, 2008; SANAA, 2009; Jean Nouvel, 2010; and, other works such as Zaha Hadid's temporary 2006 installation Lilas are included in the book as well. This book is the first to bring together all of the Serpentine Pavilions.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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In the late 1980s, Japan was awash in seemingly unlimited wealth and rising toward what would be the peak of its modern economic success, power, and influence. In 1991 the same lethal combination of risky loans, inflated stocks, and real estate speculation that created this "bubble economy" caused it to burst, plunging the country into its worst recession since World War(...)
After the crash: architecture in post-bubble Japan
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In the late 1980s, Japan was awash in seemingly unlimited wealth and rising toward what would be the peak of its modern economic success, power, and influence. In 1991 the same lethal combination of risky loans, inflated stocks, and real estate speculation that created this "bubble economy" caused it to burst, plunging the country into its worst recession since World War II. New Zealand–born architect Thomas Daniell arrived in Japan at the dawn of this turbulent decade. After the Crash is an anthology of essays that draw on first-hand observations of the built environment and architectural culture that emerged from the economically sober post-bubble period of the 1990s. Daniell uses projects and installations by architects such as Atelier Bow Wow, Toyo Ito, and the metabolists to illustrate the new relationships forged, most of necessity, between architecture and society in Japan. Tom Daniell is a practicing architect, critic, and educator who has based himself in Kyoto, Japan since the early 1990s.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Exhibition halls and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, arts centres and concert halls: big sheds are all around us yet the story behind their extraordinary growth has gone untold. Beginning with the roots of the big shed – including 19th-century iron structures, the work of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, and the Pompidou and(...)
Big shed
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Exhibition halls and sports arenas, factories and warehouses, airports and railway stations, arts centres and concert halls: big sheds are all around us yet the story behind their extraordinary growth has gone untold. Beginning with the roots of the big shed – including 19th-century iron structures, the work of Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, and the Pompidou and Sainsbury Centres – the book is organized by function: exhibitions, industry, transport, sports and arts. Together these areas account for the best examples of big sheds over the past twenty years, and include work by Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Nicholas Grimshaw and Toyo Ito, among many others. From the vertiginous daring of Tokyo International Forum to Madrid’s award-winning Barajas Airport, these structures have changed the very nature of architecture. Throughout the book Pryce’s dramatic photography captures the buildings’ primal vastness, while technical drawings help explain how they were designed, built and function.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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La notion de « paysage » a énormément évolué. Les professionnels du secteur se sont fait reconnaître et jouent un rôle plus important de par le développement cohérent de leur recherche avec l’évolution de l’art, de la planification urbaine et de l’espace public. On peut trouver des références au design paysagiste dans la planification urbaine, dans des projets de(...)
Dictionnaire des paysagistes d'aujourd'hui
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La notion de « paysage » a énormément évolué. Les professionnels du secteur se sont fait reconnaître et jouent un rôle plus important de par le développement cohérent de leur recherche avec l’évolution de l’art, de la planification urbaine et de l’espace public. On peut trouver des références au design paysagiste dans la planification urbaine, dans des projets de réhabilitation de zones abandonnées, dans la conception des espaces publics, des parcs et des jardins privés, dans le "land ar" et en photographie. L’accroissement des projets publics et la capacité à rester en phase avec les nouvelles approches théoriques et les usages du design ont porté cette discipline sur le devant de la scène. Avec près de cent portraits d’architectes, d’ingénieurs, d’architectes paysagistes, d’artistes et de photographes mondialement connus – Tadao Andao, Emilio Ambasz, Daniel Buren, Christo et Jean-Claude, Tony Cragg, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Toyo Ito, Anish Kapoor, Rem Koolhaas, Maya Lin, Richard Long et James Turrel, pour n’en citer que quelques-uns –, cet ouvrage constitue un outil de référence.
Gardens
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The Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (The Feidad Award) was conferred for the first time in 2000, its aim being to encourage and honour innovative design created with the aid of digital media. In 2006, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn (Greg Lynn FORM), Marcos Novak, Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean North), and other distinguished architects,(...)
Distinguishing Digital Architecture : 6th Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award
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The Far Eastern International Digital Design Award (The Feidad Award) was conferred for the first time in 2000, its aim being to encourage and honour innovative design created with the aid of digital media. In 2006, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn (Greg Lynn FORM), Marcos Novak, Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV), Birger Sevaldson (Ocean North), and other distinguished architects, awarded the prize for the sixth time. This book presents the 52 best projects by architects, students and designers worldwide. It explores digital concepts such as computing, information, electronic media, hyper-, virtual-, and cyberspace in order to help define and discuss future space and architecture in the digital age. Fully documented in text and colour illustrations, these award-winning projects provide an excellent overview of the very latest international developments in digital design and an invaluable source-book for all who make use of new media in their work. As special treat "stars” like Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Fernando Menis, Asymptote, Diller+Scofidio, OCEAN-north, MVRDV and UN Studio were invited to submit projects for this edition.
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