Contemporary Japanese architecture :

Steele, James, 1943-

Contemporary Japanese architecture : tracing the next generation / James Steele. - London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 - xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and index.

Acknowledgements. Introduction: The (Dis) Continuities of Japanese Architecture. Part 1: An Enduring Cultural Framework. 1. The Land and its People. 2. History and Religion. 3: Paroxysm and Change. Part 2: From Modernity to Modernism: 1869-1940. 4. The Search for Knowledge and its Consequences. 5. Modernism Sidetracked on the Road to War. Part 3: From Re-birth to Economic Collapse. 6. Post-War Reconstruction, From Survival to Recovery: 1945- 1950. 7. The Le Corbusier Syndrome. 8. Metabolism Revisited. 9.Expo '70: A Joyful Vision of a New World. 10. The Shinohara School. 11. Post-Modernism: Apostasy or Prophesy? 12. A Decade of Excess: Life Inside the Bubble. Part 4: Transitional Figures. 13: Witness to War. 14: Conflicting Identities. 15: Relief and Rebuilding. Part 5: The Next Generation. 16. Doing More With Less. 17. On the Surface. 18. Intersticial Space: The New Engawa. 19. Reinventing Modernism. 20. Technology As Nature. 21. Searching for the Sublime. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.

9781138941243 (hb : alk. paper) 9781138941250 (pb : alk. paper)

2016036737

NA1555.6 / .S74 2017

720.9520905