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Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence during the boom of the 1980s. Japanese products were sold in record numbers throughout the world and, together with Japanese architecture, became synonymous with high-quality and aesthetics. "Japan 2000: Architecture and Design for the Japanese Public" has been written by Japanese and American architects and designers. In a series of in-depth essays, this lavishly illustrated book presents the architectural and design era of the post-boom 1990s in Japan to a Western audience for the first time. The architecture section focuses on the rapidly expanding public building sector in Japan today. Using some of the most spectacular examples as a basis for their analysis, the athors examine the Japanese government's role in architecture as well as the historical background of postwar building. In the design section, roughly half the objects featured are award winners in the Good Design Selection System competition, which has done much to raise the standards of design in Japan and is a central theme to this volume. The other half of the objects result from collaborative efforts between industrial designers and traditional craftsmen and are not mass-produced. This reflects the growing concern in Japan to preserve traditional art forms and to revive, or redefine, a specifically Japanese aesthetic. Each section is accompanied by a series of colour and black-and-white illustrations, and future projects are also included.
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- PublisherThe Art Institute of Chicago
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0865591644
- ISBN 13 9780865591646
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages158
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Japan 2000: Architecture and design for the Japanese public
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The Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A., 1998
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ISBN 13: 9780865591646
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Japan 2000: Architecture and Design for the Japanese Public
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. 158 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name coorganized by The Art Institute of Chicago and The Japan Foundation. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence in the so-called 'bubble-economy' era of the 1980s. Japanese products - from automobiles to electronic equipmentwere sold in record numbers the world over, and Japanese brand names became synonymous with high quality. Now that the boom of the 1980s has given way to a recession, what is the country's designed and built environment like, and what are the factors that determine it? This attractive volume and the traveling exhibition it accompanies seek to address these questions. Essays written by experts in their fields are accompanied by impressive color plates to present Japanese architecture and design of the 1990s to a Western readership for the first time." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The historical background of postwar public architecture in Japan, by Hiroyuki Suzuki; Designing for the Japanese public; Plates, by Naomi R. Pollock; The growth of industrial design in Japan, by John Heskett; The history of Japanese design : a personal view, by Takuo Hirano; The cultural engineering of traditional local industry, by Tadanori Nagasawa; Plates, by Tetsuyuki Hirano and Tetsuro Hakamada. Size: 4to. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 022428
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JAPAN 2000 . ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN FOR THE JAPANESE PUBLIC
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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Buen estado. 1998. Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence in the so-called "bubble-economy" era of the 1980s. Japanese products - from automobiles to electronic equipmentwere sold in record numbers the world over, and Japanese brand names became synonymous with high quality. Now that the boom of the 1980s has given way to a recession, what is the country's designed and built environment like, and what are the factors that determine it? This attractive volume and the traveling exhibition it accompanies seek to address these questions. Essays written by experts in their fields are accompanied by impressive color plates to present Japanese architecture and design of the 1990s to a Western readership for the first time. 158 pp. Numerosas reproducciones en color y b/n. Idioma: Inglés. La esquina superior derecha está un poco plegada, el resto e interior en perfecto estado. LIB 2H. Seller Inventory # 001971-2 H
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Japan 2000: Architecture and design for the Japanese public
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