20th Century Japan in 20 Buildings
Author:   John Barr
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
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9781848225725


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Barr
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781848225725


ISBN 10:   1848225725
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 March 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Prelude : 1868 And All That; Movements and Manifestos; The Finance Minister and the Colonel; Interlude: Putting Lipstick on the Gorilla; Empire and War; The Last Japanese Building; Alternative Facts; New Reality New Friends; Interlude : All Things to All Men; A Tale of Two Governors; Towards a Japanese Machine; Welcome Back; The Naked City; Sticking It to The Man; (Artificial) Landlords; Interlude: The Sumo Wrestler in the Room; Just to Look Without Trying to Prove Anything; The Rise of High Rise; A Dense Nothingness; New Religions; The Cathedral and the Blue Sheet City; Storyville; Castles in the Air; Déjà Vu All Over Again; Notes; Bibliography

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'Beautifully illustrated but highly critical potted history of Japanese modernism, including its most feted practitioners (Kurokawa and the Metabolists, Kengo Kuma) but with some strongly argued counter-examples.' - Owen Hatherley


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John Barr is an architect with over 30 years of experience working in Japan. In 1992, he became the first British architect to qualify as a registered architect with a first class licence in Japan and established his own practice in Kobe. He was admitted to the Architectural Institute of Japan in 2002 and has been lecturing on Japanese architecture at the University of Strathclyde since 2012.

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