Architectural Guide Japan (Kartoniert) von Botond Bognar

Contemporary Japanese architecture has, for over half a century, achieved worldwide recognition not only for its highly innovative and often futuristic qualities, but also for its sensitive response to Japans cultural and physical context, which has become especially challenging given the countrys increasingly urbanised environment. Today, Japans contemporary architecture is admired perhaps as much as its traditional counterpart, with which it often maintains a meaningful dialogue. Botond Bognars Architectural Guide - Japan introduces close to 700 of the most prominent examples of this fertile architecture, in addition to outlining its development from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in a concise historical essay. All texts are accompanied by about 930 colour photos, all taken by the author, and over 90 drawings. Detailed information about each entry is enhanced by geodata in the form of QR codes.

Botond Bognar is a professor and Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognised scholar of contemporary Japanese architecture and urbanism. He has lectured all over the world and has a long list of publications to his credit. Among his most recent books are "Beyond the Bubble: The New Japanese Architecture" (London: 2008), "Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma" (New York: 2009), and "Kengo Kuma - Portland Japanese Garden" (New York: 2019; co-authored with Balázs Bognár).