#books #architecture | Kengo Kuma : my life as an architect in Tokyo

Kengo Kuma : my life as an architect in Tokyo / Kengo Kuma ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
London [etc.] : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
127 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón / Kengo Kuma / Tokio (Japón)

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780500343616
Cita APA-7: Kuma, Kengo (2021). Kengo Kuma : my life as an architect in Tokyo. Thames & Hudson.
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https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1250018059

[.en] It was around Kengo Kuma’s tenth birthday that he came into contact with Kenzō Tange’s fishlike Yoyogi National Gymnasium, completed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and determined that he would become an architect. In the intervening five or so decades, he has become one of the world’s most fascinating and influential architects. Through twenty-five stories, this intimate little publication paints a picture of how a building inspired a boy to become an architect, how Japan’s national heritage helped form his thinking, and how his professional experience has made him one of the most successful architects of his generation. This book contains something for everyone: design acumen, insights into Japanese culture, a tour of Tokyo and the heartfelt commitment to producing buildings that have meaning and longevity.

#books #towplanning | [Re] Tokyo

[Re] Tokyo / Jin Taira ; [introduction by Kengo Kuma].
[Novato, California] : Oro Editions, 2018.
395 p. : il.
ISBN 9781940743660
/ EN / Libros / Ciudades – Renovación – Japón / Tokio (Japón) / Urbanismo – Japón
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https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083994217

[.en] ‘[re]TOKYO’ explores a wide, understanding vision
of the transformative processes of one of the most influential and unknown metropolitan areas in the world, from large scale efforts such as Tokyo’s land engineering transformations, to smaller examples
such as its capital vending machine system. Four hundred pages, compiling 400 years of history, are covered in this uniquely Japanese complexity of social conurbation, including more than 1400 illustrations, diagrams, photographs, and maps in order to visually support selected themes. ‘[re]TOKYO’ develops the idea of [re]definition processes to explain what, who, when, where, and why all these changes took place, concluding with a collection of the essential processes that comprehensively elaborate Tokyo’s changes—a tool to understand its history and speculate about its future as an exciting metropolis and cultural center of the world.

#libros #urbanismo | (Re)Tokio

(Re) Tokio / Jin Taira ; [traducción, Jin Taira, Guadalupe Martín, Shu Taira].
Gijón : Satori, 2011.
395 p. : principalmente il.
Basado en la tesis del autor.
ISBN 9788493820480
/ ES / Libros / Ciudades – Renovación – Japón / Tokio (Japón) / Urbanismo – Japón
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https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/796268651

[.es] [Re]TOKIO tiene por objeto el descubrir al lector una de las ciudades más enigmáticas del mundo. El estudio navega en una gran vorágine del cambio, desentrañado a través de 33 capítulos las claves de su nacimiento, crecimiento, estado actual y las líneas de mutación a las que la gran urbe está abocada. Tras un largo devenir, el espacio urbano de Tokio ha sufrido diferentes transformaciones. En el presente libro, esta capa histórica se describe empleando el concepto de [re]DEFINICIÓN para analizar principalmente los procesos de transformación desde la perspectiva de la arquitectura y el planeamiento urbano. Estos espacios varían a lo largo del tiempo. Los planes e intenciones de los hacedores son la fuerza motriz a través de la cual la ciudad se transforma bajo su influencia, reduciendo esta relación de transformación a un conjunto de verbos y atributos. Estos se han coleccionado, clasificado y catalogado. [re]TOKIO recurre a este sistema lógico para analizar la transición espacial de Edo a Tokio.

#books #architecture | Architectural guide Tokyo

Architectural guide Tokyo / Ulf Meyer

DOM, Berlin : 2010.

248 p. : il. col. 

ISBN 9783869221069

Materias:

Arquitectura -- Guías.

Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Japón.

Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Japón.

Tokio (Japón)

Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje | Referencia A-(036)72(520) ARC

OPAC Millennium

The exotic and ultra-modern architecture of Japans capital city fascinates architecture aficionados all around the world. This new Tokyo architectural guide is an indispensable companion for anyone seeking to explore the architecture of one of the worlds largest and most complex cities. Two hundred of Tokyos most interesting buildings from the post-1945 era are introduced in pictures and informative texts. Historical photographs, plans, and several indices complete this practical and user-friendly guide, with maps making the buildings easy to locate. Includes a foreword by Professor Botond Bognar, who discusses the buildings described in the book in the context of East Asian architecture.

Architects: Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Herzog & de Meuron, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Kisho Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Cesar Pelli, Renzo Piano, Kevin Roche, Richard Rogers, Aldo Rossi, SANAA, Skidmore, Owings, Merrill; Philippe Starck, Shin Takamatsu, Yoshio Taniguchi, Yoshiro Taniguchi, Rafael Vinoly and others...

book | 21st century Tokyo : a guide to contemporary architecture

21st century Tokyo : a guide to contemporary architecture / Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon.
Twenty-first century Tokyo : a guide to contemporary architecture
Tokyo [etc.] : Kodansha International, 2010.
239 p. : fot.
ISBN 9784770030542*
Materias:
Arquitectura - Siglo XXI - Japón.
Arquitectura - Guías.
Tokio (Japón)
Biblioteca | Referencia A-(036)72.038(520) TWE

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21st Century Tokyo is a fascinating guide to the city through its contemporary architecture. 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. 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. 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.

Julian Worrall 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. He writes regularly for The Japan Times, Domus, and Icon.

Erez Golani Solomon 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. Joshua Lieberman was born in New York and is now based in Tokyo. His most notable assignments outside Japan have taken him to Dubai, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, with commissions ranging from architectural magazine editorials to luxury hotel advertising campaigns. www.jil-studio.com

book | Tokyo metabolizing

Tokyo metabolizing / Koh Kitayama, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Ryue Nishizawa.
Tokyo : TOTO, 2010.
143 p. : il.
Texto en japonés e inglés
ISBN 9784887063129*
Materias:
Urbanismo - Japón.
Arquitectura - Japón.
Tokio (Japón)
Biblioteca A-711.4(520) TOK

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Originating from Japan in 1960, and now influential globally, the Metabolist movement proposed that cities can be metabolized, like machines – growing wildly, and shedding their functional components. Produced in accompaniment to the Japan pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale, Tokyo Metabolizing presents an analysis of the city's architectural development from a Metabolist perspective, mainly through the work and writings of Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Ryue Nishizawa, both at the cutting edge of contemporary Japanese architecture.

libro | Tokyo clash : japanese pop culture

Tokyo clash : japanese pop culture / Ralf Bähren.
Postdam, Germany : H. F. Ullmann, 2010.
191 p. : il.
Texto en español, portugués y japonés
ISBN 9783833157004*
Materias:
Urbanismo - Aspecto social.
Sociología urbana - Japón.
Tokio (Japón)
Biblioteca A-911.375 TOK

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Tokyo Clash es un encuentro con la cultura del diseño japonés actual. De forma muy visual, colorida y llena de contrastes, el autor y fotógrafo Ralf Bähren presenta la gran metrópolis de Japón. Consigue que el lector viaje a través de la cultura cotidiana japonesa, por un mundo que no se corresponde con la imagen estererotipada que tenemos de Asia. Carteles de colores intensos, rótulos luminosos de establecimientos de ocio y juegos de azar, dibujos manga y un sinnúmero de otros objetos de consumo japonés compiten aquí por captar la atención del observador. Imágenes de Japón de hoy que conviven con templos tradicionales y estatuas de Buda. De esta manera el libro ofrece una visisón fascinante, provocativa y en ocasiones absurda, de un universo ajeno.

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