Events category: Book launch

24 March 2010

Launch of 'New Architecture in Japan' and talk by Yuki and Edmund Sumner

This major new survey showcases Japan’s new architecture, featuring projects of all types, sizes and budgets, from offices and private houses to schools, shops, hospitals, airports and chapels. Both cutting-edge, emerging young practices such as Sou Fujimoto and Junya Ishigami are featured, as well as established, internationally known architects, such as Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and SANAA.

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14 December 2010

International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing "Kokusai Kenchiku"

After World War I, architects around the world aspired to transcend national boundaries that had been devastated by conflicts. The result was a flurry of artistic creativity. In Japan, young architects strove to create an “international architecture,” or “kokusai kenchiku”, an expression of increasing international travel and communication, growth of the mass media, and technological

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18 June 2009

Japan and Britain at War and Peace

Edited by Hugo Dobson and Nobuko Kosuge, with contributions by Kimihiko Baba, Hugo Dobson, Reinhard Drifte, C.G.H. Dunlop, Yoichi Kibata, Nobuko Kosuge, Fumitaka Kurosawa, Kei Nemoto, Ian Nish, Caroline Rose, Philip Towle and John Weste. Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from

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1 February 2011

Japanese Prints during the Edo Period

Japanese woodblock prints have long been appreciated in the West for their graphic qualities but their content has not always been fully understood. In recent years, publications by scholars in Japan, Europe and the United States have made possible a more subtle appreciation of the imagery encountered in them.

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