Reading

Japanese Contemporary Architecture

School of Architecture 
 
Required Reading
  Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (Translator) ,
Empire of Signs,
Hill and Wang 1983
ISBN: 0374522073
   
  Yatsuka, Hajime, [ Library Link ]
Architecture in the Urban Desert:
A Critical Introduction to Japanese Architecture After Modernism

Oppositions 23 (Winter 1981)
   
Recommended Reading
  Alex, William, Japanese Architecture, George Braziller 1963
  Banham, Reyner, Megastructure, Harper & Row 1976
  Bontond, Bognar, The New Japanese Architecture, Rizzoli Braziller 1990
  Boyd, Robin, Kenzo Tange, George Braziller 1962
  Gropious, Walter, The Architecture of Japan, Yale University Press 1960
  Inoue, Mitsuo, Space in Japanese Architecture, Weatherhill 1985
  Kestenbaum, Jackie, Emerging Japanese Architecture of the 1990’s, Columbia U. Press 1991
  Kurokawa, Kisho, Intercultural Architecture, The Philosophy of Symbiosis, The American Architectura Press 1992
  Ross, Michael F.(?), Metabolism in Architecture, Westview Press 1977
  Morse, Edward S., Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings, Dover 1961
  Suzuki, Hioyuki, Contemporary Architecture in Japan, George Braziller 1958-1984
  Sansom, G.B., Japan A Short Cultural History Tuttle 1983
  The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Religion Kodansha 1986
  Benedict, Ruth, The Crysanthemum and the Sword Tuttle 1946
  Doi, Takeo, The Anatomy of Dependence Kodansha 1973
  Doi, Takeo, The Anatomy of Self Kodansha 1986  
 
Contact: Sergio Duran
duran@njit.edu
 
Japanese Contemporary Architecture