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Tadao Ando : 5, Dialogues
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ISBN: 9784887063990 4887063997 Year: 2022 Publisher: Tokyo : TOTO Publishing,

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The fifth volume of a monographic series on Japanese architect Tadao Ando features photographs, plans, and sketches illustrating 19 projects which he designed while battling illness between 2014 and 2022. These include the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, Aurora Museum in Hangzhou, and Valley Gallery in Naoshima. The concept of “dialogue” took on significant meaning for the architect as he confronted the major changes which occurred in his life and for society as a whole during this tumultuous period.


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Digesting metabolism : artificial land in Japan 1954-2202
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ISBN: 9783775746427 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin : Hatje Cantz,

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How can housing better meet people’s diverse and changing needs? Moving away from the focus on capsule architecture that dominates so many studies of Japan’s Metabolist architects, Digesting Metabolism investigates the impact on Japanese housing of Le Corbusier’s idea of “artificial land,” perhaps architecture’s most famous concept that the fewest have heard of. Long buried by the term “megastructure” that it inspired, artificial land joins the individual and collective, envisioning housing as stacked platforms of plots for building freestanding homes of all variety. This book explores in detail eleven Japanese projects that translate this dream of durability combined with flexibility into built reality, illuminating its appeal for a nation whose existing land—from both earthquakes and cost—is highly unstable. First introduced to Japan in 1954 by Le Corbusier’s protégé, Takamasa Yosizaka, artificial land is essential to the Metabolists who debuted in Tokyo in 1960, with it sparking their desire to add “a time factor into city planning.” Yet artificial land has had a hold on Japan’s metabolic imagination well beyond the ‘60s, promising domestic satisfaction and environmental resilience from the postwar period to today’s government policies. Digesting Metabolism uncovers this unique Japanese history and its possible future, finding examples of infrastructure, adaptation, and dweller control that challenge commodified models of housing around the world.


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GA houses 180
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ISBN: 9784871406093 1921352028483 Year: 2022 Publisher: Tokyo A.D.A. Edita

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'GA Houses' documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. With projects by Ryue Nishizawa, Frank O. Gehry, Max Núñez, Hiroyuki Unemori, Eric Owen Moss:, Tadao Ando, Cristián Izquierdo Lehmann, and Motosuke Mandai.

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