Research Catalog

Title

Responding to chaos : tradition, technology, society, and order in Japanese design / David N. Buck.

Author

Buck, David N.

Publication

London ; New York : Spon Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

212 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"This book offers an intimate and readable account of seventeen key individuals through a series of dialogues with the designers themselves. Some of these figures, such as Tadao Ando or Shiguru Uchida are internationally famous, some like Kazuyo Sejima and Shigeru Ban are just starting to receive wider recognition, others are at present little known outside their own profession. Selected both for the clarity of their concepts as well as for the quality of their designs, each is driven by a creative vision and speaks passionately about it." "Covering more than ninety individual projects, Responding to Chaos is a compendium of ideas and concepts, completed works and projects that span a range from clocks to computer centres, crematoria to cities in the sky. These are organised around four distinct approaches to design in Japan which cut across professional boundaries - Tradition, Technology, Society and Order. It is a compelling read, not just for professionals, but for anyone who is interested in contemporary design, in art, history, culture, technology, anthropology, and what these mean in a modern urban society undergoing rapid change."--Jacket

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Design > Japan > History > 20th century
• Industrial design > Japan > History > 20th century
• Designers > Japan > Interviews
• Aesthetics, Japanese > 20th century
• Aesthetics, Japanese
• Design
• Designers
• Industrial design
• Decorative arts > Japan > History > 20th century
• Arkitekter > Japan
• Arkitektur > 1990-
• Formgivning > 2000- > Teori
• Arkitekturteori
• Japan

Genre/Form

• v – Interviews.
• v – Writings.
• interviews.
• History.
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Tradition. Symbolic sense towards space -- Aesthetics that improve with age -- Snapshots of a residential tradition -- Defending the cultural low ground -- Technology. A modernist listening to the earth -- Architecture that responds to the forces of nature -- Turning on Japan's sky lights -- Answering the question of modernism -- Society. Adjusting the boundaries of architecture -- Soul provider -- Paper architecture -- Quoting the sacred in modern Kyoto -- Order. Letting nature speak -- Rotation in harmony with nature -- Within fluctuation one finds order -- Continuous space in the urban landscape -- Stripping away any inherent meaning.

ISBN

• 0419251103
• 9780419251101

LCCN

00024566

OCLC

• ocm43499499
• 43499499
• SCSB-9524144

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library