Contemporary Japanese Architecture

Contemporary Japanese Architecture

FrenchHardback
Taschen Verlag
EAN: 9783836575102
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
CZK 1,588
Common price CZK 1,764
Discount 10%
pc
Do you want this product today?
Oxford Bookshop Praha Korunní
not available
Librairie Francophone Praha Štěpánská
not available
Oxford Bookshop Ostrava
not available
Oxford Bookshop Olomouc
not available
Oxford Bookshop Plzeň
not available
Oxford Bookshop Brno
not available
Oxford Bookshop Hradec Králové
not available
Oxford Bookshop České Budějovice
not available
Oxford Bookshop Liberec
not available

Detailed information

The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.

Since Osaka World Expo ’70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. With his intentionally limited vocabulary of geometric forms, Tadao Ando has since then put Japanese building on the world’s cultural map, establishing a bridge between East and West. In the wake of Ando’s mostly concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma (Japan National Stadium intended for the Olympic Games), Shigeru Ban (Mount Fuji World Heritage Center), and Kazuyo Sejima (Kanazawa Museum of 21st Century Art of Contemporary Art) pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have successfully developed new directions in Japanese architecture that are in harmony with nature and connected to traditional building. Rather than planning on the drawing board, the architects presented in this collection stand out for their endless search for forms, truly reacting on their environment.

Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book reveals how this unique creativity is a fruit of Japan’s very particular situation that includes high population density, a modern, efficient economy, a long history, and the continual risk of disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, as seen in the evanescent reflections of Sejima’s Kanazawa Museum, or constant change and the threat of catastrophe is a key to understanding what makes Japanese architecture different from that of Europe or America.

This XL-sized book highlights 39 architects and 55 exceptional projects by Japanese masters—from Tadao Ando’s Shanghai Poly Theater, Shigeru Ban’s concert hall La Seine Musical, SANAA’S Grace Farms, Fumihiko Maki’s 4 World Trade Center, to Takashi Suo’s much smaller sustainable dental clinic. Each project is introduced with photos, original floor plans and technical drawings, as well as insightful descriptions and brief biographies. An elaborate essay traces the country’s building scene from the Metabolists to today and shows how the interaction of past, present, and future has earned contemporary Japanese architecture worldwide recognition.

EAN 9783836575102
ISBN 3836575108
Binding Hardback
Publisher Taschen Verlag
Publication date May 28, 2021
Pages 448
Language French
Dimensions 372 x 246
Country Germany
Readership General
Illustrations 591 Illustrations
Editors Jodidio Philip
Edition Multilingual ed
Manufacturer information
The manufacturer's contact information is currently not available online, we are working intensively on the axle. If you need information, write us on helpdesk@megabooks.sk, we will be happy to provide it.

Similar titles

Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking

Graham Daniel
EnglishPaperback / softback
No Starch Press,US
ISBN: 9781718501874
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 13. of May 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 13. of May 2025
CZK 1,441 -10%
Engineering Science

Engineering Science

Tooley Mike
EnglishPaperback / softback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780367432720
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
CZK 1,525 -10%
Books do Furnish a Life

Books do Furnish a Life

Dawkins, Richard
EnglishHardback
Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781787633681
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
CZK 674 -10%
Shadow of the Black Hole

Shadow of the Black Hole

Moffat John W.
EnglishHardback
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN: 9780190650728
On order
Delivery on Thursday, 24. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Thursday, 24. of April 2025
CZK 827 -10%
OMA / Rem Koolhaas

OMA / Rem Koolhaas

Van Gerrewey, Christophe
EnglishPaperback / softback
Birkhäuser Berlin
ISBN: 9783035619775
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 29. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 29. of April 2025
CZK 1,145 -10%
Gamestorming

Gamestorming

Gray, Dave
EnglishPaperback / softback
O'Reilly Media
ISBN: 9780596804176
On order
Delivery on Thursday, 17. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Thursday, 17. of April 2025
CZK 1,038 -10%
How to Make the World Add Up

How to Make the World Add Up

Harford Tim
EnglishPaperback / softback
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349143866
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
CZK 340 -10%
Start with Why How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Start with Why How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Sinek Simon
EnglishPaperback / softback
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241958223
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 22. of April 2025
CZK 256 -10%
Vehicle Technology

Vehicle Technology

Schramm Dieter
EnglishPaperback / softback
De Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110595697
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 29. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Tuesday, 29. of April 2025
CZK 2,057 -10%
Shape of a Life

Shape of a Life

Yau, Shing-Tung
EnglishHardback
Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300235906
On order
Delivery on Thursday, 17. of April 2025
On order
Delivery on Thursday, 17. of April 2025
CZK 649 -10%