Toward a Less Desolate City
In: Review of Japanese culture and society: Jōsai daigaku kokusai gakujutsu bunka shinkō sentā kiyō, Band 33/34, Heft 1, S. 102-106
ISSN: 2329-9770
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In: Review of Japanese culture and society: Jōsai daigaku kokusai gakujutsu bunka shinkō sentā kiyō, Band 33/34, Heft 1, S. 102-106
ISSN: 2329-9770
With the evolution of digital and material technologies, Japanese designers and architects are seeking ways to reverse the wholesale destruction of traditional public space in Japan brought about by industrialisation, automobiles, and Western-style concrete and steel interventions. Japanese public spaces (hiroba, or wide open areas), human-scale spaces traditionally fashioned of warm and renewable materials, are making a comeback thanks to technological breakthroughs in glass and non-flammable woods that allow the expression of highly refined and delicate qualities. Includes an essay by Kengo Kuma and numerous exemplary projects
In: Measuring the non-measurable 00
The monograph, including an original text by Kuma himself, gives an in-depth documentation of this lyrical temporary structure- with many unpublished sketches, technical plans and with splendid color photographs.
In: Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 90-101
ISSN: 2185-0593