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Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the transpacific / John Price.
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Tokyo : Azur ; Woodbridge : ACC Distribution [distributor], 2010.
SPA-DE. Vol. 12 : space & design, international review of interior design / edited by Gunshiro Matsumoto.
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Tokyo : Azur ; Woodbridge : ACC Distribution [distributor], 2010.
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"Maki Opus" is the definitive book showcasing the life and work of the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, known for designing understated yet boundary-pushing buildings in Japan and around the world. At four hundred pages and including one thousand illustrations, this impressive volume on Maki's work was compiled in close collaboration with his studio both before and after(...)
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"Maki Opus" is the definitive book showcasing the life and work of the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, known for designing understated yet boundary-pushing buildings in Japan and around the world. At four hundred pages and including one thousand illustrations, this impressive volume on Maki's work was compiled in close collaboration with his studio both before and after his passing. Maki Opus brings together the architect's own selection of the buildings that have best exemplified his career and seen him pave the way for the next wave of superlative Japanese architects, such as Kengo Kuma and SANAA.
Architecture Monographs
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Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa’s family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family(...)
Ruth Asawa: An artist takes shape
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Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forced into camps. Asawa’s family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to a concentration camp in Arkansas. Asawa nurtured her dreams of becoming an artist while imprisoned and eventually made her way to the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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A collection of architect Shigenori Uoya's works. Uoya conducts surveys and research on the transformation and current status of the structures of streets and city blocks in historical cities in Japan and abroad, focusing on Kyoto. He approaches architecture based on a temporal axis that extends from the past to the future, including the renovation of machiya and the(...)
Shigenori Uoya Architecture works: layering time in the city
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A collection of architect Shigenori Uoya's works. Uoya conducts surveys and research on the transformation and current status of the structures of streets and city blocks in historical cities in Japan and abroad, focusing on Kyoto. He approaches architecture based on a temporal axis that extends from the past to the future, including the renovation of machiya and the reconstruction of cities. The book introduces Uoya's numerous works, including the Kakkyoyama Common Center for Gion Festival, which won the AIJ Prize in 2023, through photographs, drawings, essays, and diagrams, offering insights into the essence of his architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘'MANGARCHITECTURE'’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. In addition to(...)
Mangarchitecture: Absence of an architect
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An architecture book in a radical new format, ‘'MANGARCHITECTURE'’ comprises seven short manga stories by seven artists, each based on a different project by Tokyo-based architect Yasutaka Yoshimura. The manga creators use Yoshimura’s work as a springboard for wildly imaginative interpretations that simultaneously hint at new possibilities for architecture. In addition to the manga stories, the book presents building drawings, designs, and data, as well as commentary on each project by Yoshimura. Completing the volume is an essay by the architect and a thought-provoking dual chronology of the history of manga and architecture in Japan.
Contemporary Architecture
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Rem Koolhaas' spaces for living, including his apartments and houses, are collected for the first time in book format. This new book highlights this important aspect of his work: with texts, plans and photographs, it presents the Patiovilla in Rotterdam, the Villa Dall'Ava(...)
OMA Rem Koolhaas : living vivre leben
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Rem Koolhaas' spaces for living, including his apartments and houses, are collected for the first time in book format. This new book highlights this important aspect of his work: with texts, plans and photographs, it presents the Patiovilla in Rotterdam, the Villa Dall'Ava in Paris, the Dutch House in Holten, the Maison à Bordeaux, and the Nexus Housing in Fukuoka/Japan. Their common theme is an intense search for freedom. As with all of Koolhaas' work, a clever play with openings, transparencies and transparent and opaque surfaces makes these living spaces permeable to the variations of light, weather, and function.
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Architecture Monographs
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The magazine once again brings the Japanese architecture powerhouse duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa into the spotlight, highlighting their collaborative and individual work between 2015 and 2023. Featuring even more projects than part one (‘El Croquis’ 205), it also includes an essay by architecture critic and curator Bart Lootsma. Notable works are the New(...)
El Croquis 220-221: SANAA II (2015-2023)
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The magazine once again brings the Japanese architecture powerhouse duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa into the spotlight, highlighting their collaborative and individual work between 2015 and 2023. Featuring even more projects than part one (‘El Croquis’ 205), it also includes an essay by architecture critic and curator Bart Lootsma. Notable works are the New National Gallery in Budapest, a canopy for Umekita Park in Osaka, and the Suzhou Arts Theatre (SANAA); Nichia Corporation Yokohama Research Centre and three private homes (Sejima); and Mishima Office Building and the Sirakawa Exit Plaza at Kumamoto Station in southern Japan (Nishizawa).
El Croquis
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
October 2008, London
Cold war modern design 1945 - 1970
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Accompanying the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, this ground-breaking study of modern art, architecture, design and film examines the Cold War as a conflict between differing conceptions of modern life. It is an ambitious review of the geography of Cold War modernity, including works from the Socialist Bloc and western Europe, the United States, Cuba and Japan. Essays on subjects as diverse as Cold War strategy, domesticity and hi-tech design developments are illustrated with remarkable images by internationally renowned artists and designers from Picasso to Kubrick, alongside the forgotten figures of the Cold War era.
Design, Periods and Styles
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The Changes are Misha Hollenbach, Shauna T, Fergus Purcell and Sk8thing. They live in separate countries, with separate timezones: Australia, Britain, and Japan. They have been, respectively: Dennis Roussos/Brian Freeze/Porky Sausage/Roland Korg/Boy George Michael; Boohoo Haha/Veronique Cliché/Nutty Nutnut; Aries Overlord/Mr Stinky/Mr T. Shirt; Vertical Doorway/Johnny(...)
The Changes: the times they are The Changes
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The Changes are Misha Hollenbach, Shauna T, Fergus Purcell and Sk8thing. They live in separate countries, with separate timezones: Australia, Britain, and Japan. They have been, respectively: Dennis Roussos/Brian Freeze/Porky Sausage/Roland Korg/Boy George Michael; Boohoo Haha/Veronique Cliché/Nutty Nutnut; Aries Overlord/Mr Stinky/Mr T. Shirt; Vertical Doorway/Johnny Clone/Robot Asimov/Mangosteen Mangosteen AKA Barry Mango. Soon, they will probably be something else entirely. Theirs is a fluid set of identities, where roles are created and destroyed, never confirmed for long, and abruptly transformed without warning. Text by Thomas Jeppe
Contemporary Art Monographs