Title:
Responding to chaos : tradition, technology, society, and order in Japanese design
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Publication Information:
London : Spon Press, 2000
ISBN:
9780419251101
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Summary
Summary
A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century. The country's economic boom in the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and consequently in design in all its forms. From restaurant interiors to products, from private housing to recreational spaces, design received an unprecedented degree of attention. However the bursting in the early 1990s of this so-called 'bubble' economy has prompted a re-examination of design and its role in urban society.
Table of Contents
| ForewordDavid Chipperfield |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction |
| Tradition |
| Symbolic Sense Towards SpaceShigeru Uchida |
| Aesthetics that Improve with AgeKan Izue |
| Snapshots of a Residential TraditionYoshiji Takehara |
| Defending the Culture Low GroundToru Murakami Technology |
| A Modernist Listening to the EarthToru Mitani |
| Architecture that Responds to the Forces of NatureShoei Yoh |
| Turning on Japan's Sky LightsMotoko Ishii |
| Answering the Question of ModernismWaro Kishi |
| Society |
| Adjusting the Boundaries of ArchitectureKazuyo Sejima |
| Soul ProviderToshiyuki Kita |
| Paper ArchitectureShigeru Ban |
| Quoting the Sacred in Modern KyotoShin Takmatsu |
| Order Letting Nature SpeakTadao Ando |
| Rotation in Harmony with NatureKazuhiro Ishii |
| Within Fluctuation One Finds OrderTakefumi Aida |
| Continuous Space in Urban LandscapeYoji Sasaki |
| Stripping Away any Inherent MeaningHiromi Fujii In Conclusion |
| About the Author |
| Photographic Credits |
| Index |
