Contemporary Japanese Architecture : Tracing the Next Generation (Paperback)

Acknowledgements.  Introduction: The (Dis) Continuities of Japanese Architecture.  Part 1: An Enduring Cultural Framework.  1. The Land and its People.  2. History and Religion.  3: Paroxysm and Change.  Part 2: From Modernity to Modernism: 1869-1940.  4. The Search for Knowledge and its Consequences.  5. Modernism Sidetracked on the Road to War.  Part 3: From Re-birth to Economic Collapse.  6. Post-War Reconstruction, From Survival to Recovery: 1945- 1950.  7. The Le Corbusier Syndrome.  8. Metabolism Revisited.  9.Expo ’70: A Joyful Vision of a New World.  10. The Shinohara School.  11. Post-Modernism: Apostasy or Prophesy?  12. A Decade of Excess: Life Inside the Bubble.  Part 4: Transitional Figures.  13: Witness to War.  14: Conflicting Identities.  15: Relief and Rebuilding.  Part 5: The Next Generation.  16. Doing More With Less.  17. On the Surface.  18. Intersticial Space: The New Engawa.  19. Reinventing Modernism.  20. Technology As Nature.  21. Searching for the Sublime.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Glossary.  Index.