Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 160 pages
- Published by: Princeton Architectural Press
- Edition: 1st Edition January 1, 1998
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 156898121X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1568981215
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
Numerous Architects in Japan have reacted against the forces of materialism and rationalism that were imported in the post-war era, mainly from the United States. Tadao Ando is probably the most vocal critic of materialism, but no architect pushes the position as far as Takasaki Masaharu. His view is that there is a deeper, more primitive part of architecture that has been lost in the drive for modernisation: in his work, ancient myth is recovered and mixed with fuzzy astronomy, as part of an attempt to forge something new and meaningful. --
Architects Journal
Product Review
Experiencing the magical world of Takasaki's architecture evokes the awe that one feels when looking at images taken by the Hubbell Telescopeit is the experience of coming face to face with the infinity and timelessness of the cosmos, the inexplicable and the unexplainable, that is, the dimensions of the unknown and the unknowable.
Botond Bognar, from his introduction to Takasaki Masaharu: An Architecture of Cosmology Above all, Takasaki's buildings are orchestrated by a gutsy exuberance that celebrates humanity in all its messy complexity and diversity . In the reductivist world of mass housing [his work] stands as an illuuminating example of the fecund, transforming power of architecural imagination.
Phoebe Chow, Architectural Digest
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