21st century Tokyo : A guide to contemporary architecture
architecture, twenty-first century, vingt et unième siècle, Tokyo, Japan, Japon, photographie
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> 21st Century Tokyo is a fascinating guide to the city through its contemporary architecture.<br /> <br /> Authors Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon present eighty-three buildings, from world-renowned projects such as Herzog & de Meuron's Prada building and FOA's spectacular Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, to quirky private houses and soaring office towers of glass and steel. Alongside Western architects, who have built some of their most outstanding projects in Tokyo, the authors showcase recent works of celebrated Japanese architects, including Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Fumihiko Maki, and Kenzo Tange. Incisive essays introduce each building not just from an architectural perspective, but also as part of the social, cultural, and political tapestry of the city, creating a full and fascinating portrait of the metropolis.<br /> <br /> The book is divided into seven easy-to-navigate chapters, each covering a different Tokyo district, with detailed maps and access information, and illustrated throughout with stunning black-and-white photography by Joshua Lieberman. This is an indispensable guidebook for the professional architect, the sightseer, or anyone with an interest in contemporary Japan.<br /> <br /> Tokyo—one of the most innovative and forward-thinking cities in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in its modern architecture. Eighty-three of the city's latest buildings are gathered in these pages and introduced not just from an architectural perspective but as part of the social, cultural, and political tapestry of the city. With stunning black-and-white photography spotlighting a wide range of projects, from the monumental masterpieces of famous architects to the everyday buildings often overlooked, this is a full and fascinating overview of the architectural landscape of twenty-first-century Tokyo.</div> </div> <b>Julian Worrall</b> is an Australian architect, scholar, and critic based in Tokyo. He has worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo. He is currently assistant professor at the Institute for Advanced Study of Waseda University in Tokyo, where he teaches architecture and conducts research on contemporary Asian urbanism.<br /> <br /> <b>Erez Golani Solomon</b> holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Tokyo. He teaches urban theory and architectural design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, where he is assistant professor.<br /> <br /> <b>Joshua Lieberman</b> is a photographer who was born in New York and is now based in Tokyo.</div> </div>
Julian Worrall Erez Golani Solomon Joshua Lieberman
Kodansha International
May 2010
240
Ouvrage
Footprint : Mapping urban complexity in an Asian context
, cartographie, réseaux, déplacements, logement, développement urbain, paysage urbain, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, Japan, Japon, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Inde, Asia, Asie, Bracken Gregory, Sohn Heidi
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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The second issue of Footprint aims at reuniting two themes which are receiving a great deal of attention in recent times: Asia’s extraordinary urban growth, and the problematique of mapping highly complex urban environments. The 21st century, forecasted by many as the ‘Pacific Century’, brings to the fore the region's economic, social, political and cultural changes, wide-ranging in their manifestation and far-reaching in their consequence. All of these factors are inscribed in the urban environment. In a region where a population of one million constitutes a small settlement and mega-cities such as Tokyo and Shanghai have come to dominate the global network, sheer size is itself an important issue and not just in practical terms. Then there is the apparent chaos that is actually a delicately balanced autopoeisis in cities such as Mumbai, as well as the interesting and potentially useful city-state model of Hong Kong. These conditions and rising phenomena bring important questions on the potentials and relevance of mapping to the fore.</div>
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The nine contributors to this issue take these questions as their point of departure, and set out to explore some of the region’s most important or complex cities. Urban China is covered by Ruan’s interesting overview of this country’s frenzied economic boom, which he claims is ephemeral; Visser’s attempt to map Beijing –‘ the ungovernable city’ - poses timely critical questions; Qiang’s analysis of the evolution of Beijing’s movement network and the effects it has on urban function; Arkaraprasertkul’s investigation of Shanghai’s Pudong, as well as its older lilong; Karandinou & Koutsoumpos’ thought-provoking and beautifully rendered mapping project of Shanghai’s ‘other’ river, the Suzhou; Bhatia’s examination of Shanghai’s transforming housing typologies; Solomon’s investigation of the development of Hong Kong, particularly Victoria Harbour. Moving further east, Tokyo’s complexity is explored in Lucas’s short paper with a series of architectural drawings and movement notations exposing the act of inscription as a method of urban enquiry. And finally, Shannon’s informative and thorough mapping exercise of cities and landscapes in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Gregory Bracken and Heidi Sohn, - Mapping Urban Complexity in an Asian Context<br />
Xing Ruan - Ephemeral China/Handmade China<br />
Robin Visser - Diagnosing Beijing 2020: Mapping the Ungovernable City<br />
Qiang Sheng - Spatial ‘Complexity’: Analysis of the Evolution of Beijing’s Movement Network and its Effects on Urban Functions<br />
Non Arkaraprasertkul - Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism<br />
Anastasia Karandinou and Leonidas Koutsoumpos - Performing Mimetic Mapping: A Non-Visualisable Map of the Suzhou River Area of Shanghai<br />
Neeraj Bhatia - The Rise of the Private: Shanghai’s Transforming Housing Typologies<br />
Jonathan D. Solomon - Caves of Steel: Mapping Hong Kong in the 21st Century<br />
Raymond Lucas - Getting Lost in Tokyo<br />
Kelly Shannon - The ‘Agency of Mapping’ in South Asia: Galle-Matara (Sri Lanka), Mumbai (India) and Khulna (Bangladesh)</div>
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<b>Gregory Bracken</b> is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).</div>
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<b>Heidi Sohn</b> is Assistant Professor in Architecture Theory at the Delft School of Design.</div>
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NC
Delft School of Design
Spring 2008
119
Revue
http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/show/mapping-urban-complexity-in-an-asian-context