UID:
almafu_9961267986602883
Format:
1 online resource (291 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-262-27891-X
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1-4356-8142-8
Content:
Unavailable as a collection until now, these essays document both the intellectual journey of one of the world's leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought.Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history.Maki's treatment of his two overarching themes--the contemporary city and modernist architecture--demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected) linkages between urban theory and architectural practice. Images and commentary on three of Maki's own works demonstrate the connection between his writing and his designs. Moving through the successive waves of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism, and other isms, these essays reflect how several generations of architectural thought and expression have been resolved within one career.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- 1 - Formative Years -- 2 - Collective Form -- Collective Form: A Preface -- Investigations in Collective Form -- Linkage in Collective Form -- Time and Landscape: Collective Form at Hillside Terrace -- 3 - On the City -- City and Modernism -- My City: The Acquisition of Mental Landscapes -- America: Highways, Detached Houses, and Skyscrapers -- The Drawing Called Brasília -- Notes on Urban Space -- Space, Territory, and Perception -- Reflections on Harvard's 1956 Urban Design Conference -- The Japanese City and Inner Space -- The Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium -- 4 - On Architects and Architecture -- The Le Corbusier Syndrome: On the Development of Modern Architecture in Japan -- Making Architecture in Japan -- Togo Murano -- Stillness and Plenitude: The Architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi -- On the Industrial Vernacular -- The Roof at Fujisawa -- On Universality -- Architectural Modernity and the Consciousness Called the Present -- Notes and Credits -- Notes -- Original Publication Data -- Photo Credits -- Acknowledgments.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-51818-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-13500-0
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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