CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction : The (dis) continuities of Japanese architecture 1
Part I. An enduring cultural framework 7
1.The land and its people 9
2. History and religion 19
3. Paroxysm and change 31
Part II. From modernity to modernism: 1868-1940 41
4. The search for knowledge and its consequences 43
5. Modernism sidetracked on the road to war 1930-1940 57
Part III. From re-birth to economic collapse 71
6. Post-war reconstruction, from survival to recovery: 1945-1950 73
7. The Le Corbusier syndrome 85
8. Metabolism revisited 97
9. Expo '70: a joyful vision of a new world 111
10. The Shinohara School 121
11. Postmodernism: apostasy or prophesy? 129
12. A decade of excess: life inside the bubble 141
Part IV. Transitional figures 151
13. Witness to war: Fumihiko Maki, Yoshio Tanaguchi and Arata Isozaki 153
14. Conflicting identities: Tadao Ando, Itsuko Hasagawa, Toyo Ito, Riken Yamamoto, Chiaki Arai, and Shin Takamatsu 165
15. Relief and rebuilding: Kazuo Sejima, Kengo Kuma and Jun Aoki 187
Part V. The next generation 199
16. Doing more with less 201
Office in Tokyo / Atelier Bow Wow, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima
Mosaic house / TNA, Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima ; House and garden / Ryue Nishizawa ; 2004 house / Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture ; Springtecture / Shuhei Endo
17. On the surface 207
Morigo Office building / Togo Murano ; Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science / Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, Tezuka Architects ; Environmental Education Center in Hyogo and the Tsunami Disaster Prevention Center in Minamiawaji City / Shuhei Endo ; F-Town and the Kanno Museum in Shiogama / Hitoshi Abe ; Ginza and Shin-Yatsushiro Pavilion / Kumiko Inui ; Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza facade renewal / Jun Aoki and Associates ; Lanvin Boutique / Hiroshi Nakamura ; Romanticism shop in Hangzhou, China / Kiichiro Sako and Takeshi Ishizaka, Sako Architects ; Mt. Fuji Architects Studio, Sakura House / Masahiro and Mao Harado ; Endoh Design, natural ellipse / Masaki Endoh and Masahiro Ikeda ; House SH / Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture
18. Interstitial space the new engawa 219
Shisendo / Jozan Ishikawa ; Tomihiro Hoshino Museum and NYH House ; Musahino Library and House N, Oita / Sou Fujimoto ; Yomiuri Miyagi guest house and Reihoku Town Hall / Hitoshi Abe ; House in Buzen / Makoto Tanijiri, Suppose Design Office
19. Reinventing modernism 229
Apartment house / Kumiko Inui ; NYH House / Tomohiro Yokomiz ; BUMPS and BEANS / Kiichiro Sako and Takeshi Ishizaka, Sako Architects ; Lotus Beauty Salon, Mie / Hiroshi Nakamura ; Otake, Bishamon and Kitakumakura houses / Makoto Tanijiri, Suppose Design ; Miyagi Stadium, Sendai and Saski-Gishi office building / Hitoshi Abe ; Nihonbashi and Nakagyo houses / Waro Kishi
20. Technology as nature 247
Ring house, Karuizawa / Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima, TNA Architects ; Dancing trees, singing birds / Hiroshi Nakamura and NAP ; Fuji Kindergarten / Takaharu and Yui Tezuka, Tezuka Architects ; Kanagawa Institute of Technology / Junya Ishigami Office ; NA House / Sou Fujimoto ; Tree house / Masahiro and Mao Harada, Mt. Fuji Architects Studio
21. Searching for the sublime 257
Tokyo apartments; wooden house, Kumamoto; Children's Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation / Sou Fujimoto
Bouno house / Hitoshi Abe ; Saragaku, Tokyo / Akihisa Hirata
Glossary 265
Bibliography 271
Index 283