<p>Architects play an essential role in contemporary society, helping to shape the environment in which we live and work. This book explores how architects in Japan have responded to the demands of their times and how they continue to engage with new economic realities and the shifting global order. The moving image of Japanese society is reflected in the work of the architects profiled in this book: from the generation rising from the ashes of postwar Japan, through the postwar economic boom, to the generation that quietly gathered strength during the recession of the1970s; from the generation that debuted in the bubble economy of the 1980s to the generation that began their work after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the collapse of the bubble economy; and finally, after decades of economic stagnation, to the generation that has come to the fore since the early twenty-first century. Contemporary Japanese architects have pioneered developments in sustainability and introduced engineering innovations that have changed not only the look of modern buildings but the ways in which they can be constructed. Japanese design concepts, realized in major public buildings around the world, communicate with a global audience and contribute toward shaping our shared future.</p>

Contemporary Japanese architect

Igarashi, Taro

Japan Library

Japan Towards Totalscape locates Japanese architecture, urban design and landscape architecture within the cultural context of present-day Japan, rather than presenting projects as isolate entities. In the last decade, building activity in Japan has spread out from the metropolitan centers into less developed provincial regions, and in view of this development--and increased attention to environmental issues--the relationship between architecture and its environment is here given special emphasis. Along with essays by prominent critics, historians, economists and designers from Japan and around the world, Japan Towards Totalscape features extensive documentation of more than eighty different projects from leading Japanese architects of various generations over the past ten years, including Itsuko Hasegawa, Atelier Wow, Tadao Ando, Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, C + A, F.O.B.A., Toyo Ito, Jun Tamaki and Riken Yamamoto, among others.

Japan Towards Totalscape: Contemporary Japanese Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape

Arts & Photography

Holl, Steven

Geuze, Adriaan

Kira, Moriko

Ohno, Hidetoshi

Kerkhof, Ian

Nagasaka, Toshihisa

Nakatani, Renin

Nishimura, Yukio

Takeda, Naoki

Taneda, Yohei

Terada, Mariko

Architecture

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