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Shanghai: The Architecture of China's Great Urban Center
by Jay Pridmore  Publisher Comments Shanghai is China’s largest city, comparable to New York or Tokyo, and in recent decades it has experienced a building boom on a scale that is simply unprecedented in world history. Shanghai now has more skyscrapers than New York City. Pridmore...
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Projects in China: Von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
by Meinnhard Von Gerkan Publisher Comments The architectural practice founded in 1965 by Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg has become one of the largest, most wide-ranging and most influential in the world, and has garnered numerous international awards. Since the early 1990s von Gerkan, Marg...
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Mirei Shigemori - Rebel in the Garden: Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture
by Christian Tschumi Synopsis Mirei Shigemori decisively shaped the development of Japanese landscape architecture in the twentieth century. He founded the Kyoto Garden Society in 1932 and published the 26-volume Illustrated Book on the History of the Japanese Garden in 1938. One...
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Design: Japan
by Michael Freeman Publisher Comments From acclaimed photographer Michael Freeman and design expert Michiko Rico Nosé come a unique vision of contemporary Japanese style. Following the themes of “Work,” “Rest,” and “Play,” they examine a wide...
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Japan Style
by Kimie Tada Publisher Comments Enter the world of the stylish Japanese house, where every object in sight is a work of art. Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases the stunning beauty of old homes, and reveals how they...
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The Japanese House
by Noboru Murata Publisher Comments Traditional Japanese architecture emphasizes economy of design and an unsurpassed sensitivity to the natural environment. And a traditional Japanese home — with its freshly woven tatami mats, sliding shoji screens, and exposed wooden beams — is...
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Small House Tokyo: How the Japanese Live Well in Small Spaces
by Naohisa Kuriyama Synopsis Tokyo is a notoriously crowded city, meaning land prices are astronomical. Many Tokyo homeowners have got around the prohibitive costs by building open-plan houses on tiny plots of land that exude spaciousness. The design sensibilities combine the best...
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Chinese Architecture: A Pictorial History
by Liang Ssu Cheng Publisher Comments More than 240 rare photographs and drawings highlight this excellent pictorial record and analysis of Chinese architectural history. Based on years of unprecedented field studies by the author, the illustrations depict many of the temples, pagodas, tombs,...
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Design City Tokyo
by Masaaki Takahashi Publisher Comments Since the late 1980s, Tokyo has gained an unrivalled reputation worldwide for being at the very cutting edge of the international design scene. Despite the downturn in the Japanese economy in the mid 1990s, interior design has thrived, fuelled by a rapid...
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The Tao of Architecture
by Amos Ih Tiao Chang Synopsis In a contemplative essay that develops a parallel between void, space, time, and the science of vision in Laotzu's philosophy and in modern architecture, Amos Ih Tiao Chang reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. He writes that these...
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Castles of the Samurai: Power and Beauty
by Jennife Mitchelhill Publisher Comments The Castles of Japan are both technical and aesthetic marvels. They are technical marvels in that they are perfectly suited to their roles of defensive fortresses and administrative centers in time of war. They are aesthetic marvels in that every curve...
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Designer's Apartments in Japan: Architect-Designed Low-Rise Condominiums (Designer's Apartments in Japan)
by Fumio Shimizu Synopsis Through the use of innovative new building materials and carefully managed spatial configurations, the architects of Japans most sought after apartments strive to meet the demanding aesthetic and functional needs of contemporary city-dwellers. These...
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Modern Japanese House
by Naomi Pollock Synopsis - A survey of over 20 of the most innovative new houses built over the last decade in Japan, a country recognized worldwide for its Innovative design - Features internationally prominent architects such as Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima as well as up-and...
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Japan-Ness in Architecture:
by Arata Isozaki Publisher Comments Japanese architect Arata Isozaki sees buildings not as dead objects but as events that encompass the social and historical context -- not to be defined forever by their andquot;everlasting materialityandquot; but as texts to be interpreted and reread...
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On the Edge: Ten Architects from China
by Ian (edt) Luna Publisher Comments An English-language critical anthology on new architecture in China traces the development and maturation of the movement's approach to modern design and urbanism, in a volume that focuses on the work of ten rising firms based in mainland China, Hong...
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The Modern Japanese Tea Room
by Michael Freeman Publisher Comments The Modern Japanese Tea Room showcases chashitsus, traditional Japanese tea ceremony salons, as reconceived by contemporary architects and designers. The formal tea ceremony developed in the fifteenth century, and its ritual is closely defined, as is the...
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Buddhist Art and Architecture (World of Art)
by Robert E Fisher Synopsis The hugely diverse Buddhist tradition includes frescoes, statues, embroideries and ritual objects, as well as rock shrines, stupas, pagodas and temple complexes. Fisher describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures, from Tibet and Sri Lanka, to Korea...
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Designer's Apartments in Japan: Architect-Designed High-Rise Condominiums (Designer's Apartments in Japan)
by Fumio Shimizu Synopsis Many large-scale community redevelopment projects have been engineered in mega cities like Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama in recent years. High-rise residential tower apartments have transformed the cityscape, serving as landmarks while keeping harmony with...
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Japanese Detail
by Sadao Hibi Publisher Comments Renowned for its tranquility and serenity, its simple, elegant lines, and harmonious use of natural forms, Japanese architecture is admired by designers, architects, and homeowners alike for its easy grace. Now with a striking new cover, Japanese Detail:...
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Hip Dining China
by Synopsis Generally, a dining space reflects the cultural styles and tastes of the region. However, cross-cultural influences, especially that of the west and the other parts of Asia as a result of trade and commerce, have infiltrated the design scene of China...
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