Urban/Metropolitan Planning Policies, City Planning & Urban Design, Asia - Japanese Architecture, Urban Planning & Studies

Japan at the Cutting Edge

Name: Japan at the Cutting Edge
Author: Botond Bognar
ISBN: 9781901092103

by Botond Bognar

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Overview

Japan is one of the few countries today where diversity and innovation in design continue to shape the built environment. Benefiting from the legacies of both Eastern and Western traditions. the widespread application of the latest technologies and responding boldly, but often critically, to the rapid encroachments of the information age, Japanese architects are shaping the architecture of the future with all its promises, doubts and contradictions.

Synopsis

Japan is one of the few countries in the world today with an ability to foster on a broad scale high quality contemporary modern architecture and a futuristic urbanism.