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Hitoshi Abe: A-Slash
Hitoshi Abe, Gretchen Wilkins, ...

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2006

A-Slash is a unique and beautiful collection of architectural projects by the noted Japanese architecture studio of the same name directed by Hitoshe Abe. According to the author, "architecture is a medium" that can delicately balance phenomena that emerge as particular forces within a given project. Abe's projects fuse distinctions between architecture and landscape, image and material, architect and user, forging new collaborative ...

Home Delivery
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Rasmus Waern

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008

As the world's population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it ...

Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond

1 review
Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Ken Tadashi Oshima, ...

Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

Retired Architect/University Educator
This is a long overdue work of a couple of architect/designers which is a catalog of a simultaneous exhibition on their contribution to the profession. Tremendous research and exquisite reproductions of photographs of their work which runs from the U.S.A. to Japan and beyond. Both of the husband/wife team have worked for Wright, Corbu, et al., and have contributed their own "quality" to their ...

Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki, Ken Tadashi Oshima

Phaidon Press, 2009

Arata Isozaki is one of the most important and influential Japanese architects working today. Born in Oita, Japan, in 1931 he attended Tokyo University and later worked and studied under Kenzo Tange. In 1963, he opened his own practice and since then has realized a large number of buildings in Japan, Europe and the United States. Through his work, both as an architect and as a theorist, Isozaki has acted as a bridge between the East and the ...

Visions of the Real: Modern Houses in the 20th Century

2 reviews
Toshiko Kinoshita, Ken Tadashi Oshima

A and U,Japan, 2003

Will of Dwelling
The book is not only a very fine collection of some beautiful art works, but it's designed to show the architect's will behind the drawing, the strong passion that guides the definition of dwelling spaces. There are some of the best known houses of modern times, but also some precious jewels of hidden popularity. Definetly, a marvelous book to "possess".