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Modeled on the format of Modern House, Modern House 2, and Modern House 3, Modern Japanese House is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international architecture scene. The projects are divided into five chapters - Tiny Houses, Inside/ Outside, Multi Generation Houses, Work/Play, and Vacation Houses - that reflect the issues particular to residential design in Japan. Architects featured include such familiar figures as Kazuyo Sejima, Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, Hitoshi Abe and Shuhei Endo, as well as lesser known practitioners such as Nobuaki Furuya, Hiroshii Nakao, among others.
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Naomi Pollock has been writing about design in Japan since 1989. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Dwell, Interior Design, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and Architectural Record, for whom she is the Special International Correspondent. A trained and licensed architect, she was a guest curator for an exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 entitled "Japan 2000: Architecture and Design for the Japanese Public."
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Format:Hardcover
The best of Japanese design seems to ignore mere surface stylism instead going for a purity of expression of some intellectual idea. This book reflects that, it features an introduction and five chapters, focusing specifically on the Tiny House (Japanese sites are often minuscule), the indoor-outdoor house, the multigenerational house, the work/play house and the vacation house.
Each chapter explores the themes of the implications and potential solutions for each type of house, illustrated with five example houses. As ever the illustrations are copious and beautiful.
If you are looking for a big glossy book of dreamy houses that you would love to live in, then this is not the book for you. Based on the photos in this book, the Japanese lead unimaginably tidy lives, seemingly devoid of much of anything by way of possessions. Often there is not even furniture in these bare modern vistas. However, viewing the images, and reading the text, does let you explore the practical implications of purely intellectual ideas expressed in architecture. For example a house without walls, with curtains instead, a house with pods on wheels inside. I think that architecture does need to raise its game and face the challenges of how we live today, houses that allow multigenerational living, or combine work and living. This book explores such themes, and while the Japanese solutions might not be particularly liveable to Western eyes, they are brim full of ideas and challenge.
Each chapter explores the themes of the implications and potential solutions for each type of house, illustrated with five example houses. As ever the illustrations are copious and beautiful.
If you are looking for a big glossy book of dreamy houses that you would love to live in, then this is not the book for you. Based on the photos in this book, the Japanese lead unimaginably tidy lives, seemingly devoid of much of anything by way of possessions. Often there is not even furniture in these bare modern vistas. However, viewing the images, and reading the text, does let you explore the practical implications of purely intellectual ideas expressed in architecture. For example a house without walls, with curtains instead, a house with pods on wheels inside. I think that architecture does need to raise its game and face the challenges of how we live today, houses that allow multigenerational living, or combine work and living. This book explores such themes, and while the Japanese solutions might not be particularly liveable to Western eyes, they are brim full of ideas and challenge.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Modern Japanese House, by Naomi Pollock
3 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
This beautiful book is obviously a must-read for architects and designers; it more than fulfills their expectations as to tge ingenuity and esthetic genius of the new wave of Japanese home-builders. That is not what inspired me to write this, my first on-line book review. Rather, it is the book's essays on current changes in Japanese culture, life-styles, and domestic paraphenalia that make it, surprisingly, a treat for anyone interested in cintemporary Asia.
Rutherford Poats, New York
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Rutherford Poats, New York
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Modern Japanese House *****
24 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
The book is a very complete review of modern japanese houses, divided in very accurate categories. Naomi Pollock is very clear in explaining the evolution of each subject and she describes each house in a superb way. The photographs are gorgeous.Excellent quality, very recommendable, it's worthy paying for a book like this.
Cecilia Domenech
Cecilia Domenech
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
nice pix
10 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
this book has nice pix of interesting, inspiring houses with some usable ideas
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