Hypospace of Japanese Architecture, the
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Author: Christopher Mead
'The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture' pushes past cliches of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenization than one of cultural invention. The realisation that buildings are dynamic events continues to inform Japanese architecture and suggests how we can rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.Twin volumes of text and image map the creative pathways taken by architects in post-atomic Japan. The text volume delves into key buildings, events, and ideas; the image volume lays out a parallel visual narrative of nearly 800 photographs selected from historic sources and site visits.
ISBN 9781957183350. ORO Editions. pb. 784 pages. 25.4 x 25.4 cm.
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'The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture' pushes past cliches of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenization than one of cultural invention. The realisation that buildings are dynamic events continues to inform Japanese architecture and suggests how we can rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.Twin volumes of text and image map the creative pathways taken by architects in post-atomic Japan. The text volume delves into key buildings, events, and ideas; the image volume lays out a parallel visual narrative of nearly 800 photographs selected from historic sources and site visits.
ISBN 9781957183350. ORO Editions. pb. 784 pages. 25.4 x 25.4 cm.
available