Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma Architects and Japan Associates)

Architecture of Defeat

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Available in English for the first time, Architecture of Defeat brings together essays written by Kengo Kuma in the aftermath of disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated much of the built landscape on Japanâ s northern shore in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781138390843
• ISBN-10: 1138390844
• Artikelnr.: 57108827

Autorenporträt

Kengo Kuma is one of the world's leading architects. He established his architecture firm Kengo Kuma and Associates in 1990 and is a Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Disconnection
Criticism
Form 1. From Disconnection to Connection 2. Field and Object 3. What Was Criticality? 4. The Dreariness of Form versus Freedom Part 2: Transparency
Democracy
Materialism 1. De Stijl: A Melancholic Transparency 2. Rudolf Schindler: A Vision of Democracy 3. Yoshichika Uchida: Postwar Democracy 4. Togo Murano: System and Materialism 5. Place
Building
Image: San'ai Dream Center 6. Give Us Houses
Let Us See TV: Venice Biennale 1995 7. Girls and Yogis: Venice Biennale 2000 Part 3: Brand
Virtuality
Enclosure 1. Public
Brand
Private 2. Houses and the Sex Trade 3. Concrete Time 4. Virtuality and Parasite 5. The End of Beauty 6. Enclosure Afterword