Expatriate architect Thomas Daniell, now a resident in Kyoto, takes us on a historical and spatial tour of his adopted home country. Part architectural handbook, part critical look at contemporary building, After the Crash spans the economy, infrastructure, and impossibly small spaces of modern Japan.
Eric Firley will discuss his recent research for the book The Urban Housing Handbook (Wiley, 2009), co-authored with Caroline Stahl. Exploring the relationship between architecture and the urban fabric, the handbook provides graphic representations and analysis of 30 urban case studies from around the world. Architect and writer Alex de Looz will respond and moderate questions.
Ideal for the still-in-school foodie or the chef who moonlights as a scribe, this ceramic tray from Fish's Eddy is just darn cool. Keep it on display in the kitchen in between taking notes in chocolate syrup, writing sentences with crumbs, then eating your words.
It’s well documented that Japan replaces its building stock at an astonishing rate—the average life of a house is a mere 25 years. With that in mind, this attractive book examines modern Japanese architecture with an eye firmly focused on how the booming post-modernism of the 1980s—and its ultimate demise in the ’90s—set the stage for the more small-scale, economically minded, creative, and sustainable projects that exist today.
