Research Catalog

Title

Structured lineages : learning from Japanese structural design / edited by Guy Nordenson.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Nordenson, Guy

Description

229 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese Structural Design presents a selection of essays and roundtable discussions by internationally recognized structural engineers on the intertwined traditions of architecture and engineering in postwar Japan. Originally delivered as talks at a symposium held at the Museum of Modern Art in 2016 (on the occasion of the exhibition 'A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond'), the ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings erected in Japan after 1945, with special focus on the work of Tsuboi Yoshikatsu, Kawaguchi Mamoru, Saitō Masao, Matsui Gengo, Kimura Toshihiko, Sasaki Mutsurō. Charting a largely unexplored history in a manner at once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays--each accompanied by an expansive array of archival and contemporary photographs--illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next. Some of Japan's most recognizable, globally influential designs are traced to their origins in a mentor's earlier experiments. The diverse backgrounds of the scholars and engineers who contributed to Structured Lineages inform the book's uniquely international perspective on the spirit of creativity and cooperation that arose in Japan in the latter half of the 20th century and persists in Japanese architectural practices to this day."--

Alternative Title

Japanese constellation, Toyo Ito, SANAA, and beyond.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Architecture > Japan > History > 20th century
• Architecture > Japan > History > 21st century
• Architecture, Japanese > History > 20th century
• Structural design
• Structural engineering > Japan
• Architecture
• Structural engineering
• Japan

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Published in conjunction with the symposium of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art on April 30, 2016, which was organized in conjunction with the exhibition " A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond" on view March 13-July 31, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 20-413

ISBN

• 9781633450561
• 1633450562

LCCN

2018968474

OCLC

1057770253

Title

Structured lineages : learning from Japanese structural design / edited by Guy Nordenson.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Nordenson, Guy, editor, curator.

Added Title

Japanese constellation, Toyo Ito, SANAA, and beyond.

Other Standard Identifier

MoMA 2349

Research Call Number

JQF 20-413