Libros de JAPÓN: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

HOUSES AND GARDENS OF KYOTO

For all the damage that has occurred over the centuries, for all the relentless and destructive modernization still taking place today, Kyoto, imperial capital ...

NOUVELLE ARCHITECTURE JAPONAISE, LA

Quelle soit contemporaine ou traditionnelle, larchitecture japonaise est une source dinspiration pour les architectes et designers à travers le monde. La scène architecturale japonaise ...

KENZO TANGE Y LOS METABOLISTAS

Antón Capitel realiza una interesantísima pesquisa de la obra de Tange a partir de la influencia inicial de su maestro Mayekawa, en la órbita ...

HOKUSAI

This expansive, authoritative and deluxe monograph offers a wide-ranging examination of one of Japan's most celebrated artists. In Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, Hokusai ...

ENDO: SHUHEI ENDO. ARCHITECT INSTITUTE. DESIGN PEAK 05

Bubbletecture, Gravitecture, Slowtecture, Rooftecture, Looptecture, and Halftecture; labels Shuhei Endo uses to create an architecture directly engaged in the present and based on reality, ...

ART OF EDO JAPAN. THE ARTIST AND THE CITY 1615- 1868

This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the ...

PATTERN MAGIC

Pattern Magic" is the cult pattern-cutting book from Japan. Taking inspiration from nature, from geometric shapes and from the street, this book harnesses the ...

TAKEHARA: YOSHIJI TAKEHARA. RESIDENTAIL ARCHITECTURE

Yoshiji Takehara set up his own practice Moo Architect Workshop in 1978 after apprenticing under Osamu Ishii. He has focused on designing houses and ...

JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE. AN EXPLORATION OF ELEMENTS & FORMS

Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricate carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat'each element of traditional Japanese architecture ...

ANDO: TADAO ANDO 1994-2009

This book on the Pritzker Prizewinning architect Tadao Ando explores his recent work, which embodies principles of sustainability, site sensitivity, and craftsmanship. Entirely self-educated, ...

ANDO: LA CASA KOSHINO. TADAO ANDO (DVD). Nº 14

JAPAN HOUSES. IDEAS FOR 21ST CENTURY LIVING

Japanese residential design has evolved as a distinctive response to social, political, and climatic pressures'along with the powerful individual ideas of its architects. Japan ...

SENJU: HIROSHI SENJU

This is the first book on a painter who expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques that are unique to Japan. Hiroshi Senjus art ...

21 ST CENTURY TOKYO. A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

Authors Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon present eighty-three buildings, from world-renowned projects such as Herzog & de Meuron's Prada building and FOA's spectacular ...

MATERIALS AND MEANING IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE. TRADITION AND TODAY*

In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the ...

NIKKEN SEKKEI: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE NIKKEN SEKKEI

The Japanese based Nikken Sekkei Group has been engaged in diverse design challenges in an ongoing attempt to address a wide array of urban ...

ATELIER BOW BOW: ECHO OF SPACE/ SPACE OF ECHO

What is the relationship between a specific physical environment, whether architectural, urban or natural, and how the occupants use, experience, develop and maintain a ...

ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA IN GIAPPONE

Il volume è stato pensato come un'occasione per introdurre i lettori alle ricerche formali che accompagnano la produzione architettonica contemporanea in Giappone. Il taglio ...

KENZO TANGE AND THE METABOLIST MOVEMENT. URBAN UTOPIAS OF MODERN JAPAN*

Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book focuses on the Metabolists' utopian concept of ...

JAPANESE IDENTITIES. ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND NATURE

Japanese Identities takes readers on a journey to the most magnificent buildings of Japan, erected anywhere from the seventh century AD to the present. ...