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Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers [Paperback]

Blaine Brownell (Author)

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Publication Date: 1 April 2011 | ISBN-10: 1568989962 | ISBN-13: 978-1568989969

It can be argued that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of materials as well as an engagement with the floating world of changing cultural behaviors and shifting societal patterns. In Matter in the Floating World, materials guru Blaine Brownell (Transmaterial) travels to the offices of twenty leading material and design innovators in Japan, including Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Kazuyo Sejima, to find the connections between materiality and transience in their work. The dialogues in Matter in the Floating World are organized into four sections lightness, atmosphere, flow, and emergence that embody various approaches to materiality and evanescence in Japanese architecture and design

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (1 April 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1568989962
ISBN-13: 978-1568989969
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2 x 24.1 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 860,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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