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Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers - Softcover
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It can be argued that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of materials as well as an engagement with the floating world of changing cultural behaviors and shifting societal patterns. In Matter in the Floating World, materials guru Blaine Brownell (Transmaterial) travels to the offices of twenty leading material and design innovators in Japan, including Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Kazuyo Sejima, to find the connections between materiality and transience in their work. The dialogues in Matter in the Floating World are organized into four sections lightness, atmosphere, flow, and emergence that embody various approaches to materiality and evanescence in Japanese architecture and design
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Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers
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Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1568989962
ISBN 13: 9781568989969
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Soft cover
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Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, Burlingame, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition with complete number line. Slight bumping to corners, front cover faded unevenly. Pages bright. Early gift inscription on half title page ("Merry Christmas, 2013, Love, Mom"). 256pp. 7 x 9.5". From the front flap: "Materials expert, architect, and author Blaine Brownell traveled to the offices of twenty leading material and design innovators in Japan to find the connections between materiality and transience in their work. The resulting interviews and project profiles give firsthand knowledge about the design methods, strategies, and ambitions these designers apply to create groundbreaking work.". Seller Inventory # 2026-S258