Contemporary Japanese architecture has for over seven decades achieved worldwide recognition
not only for its highly innovative and often futuristic qualities but also for its sensitive
response to Japan's cultural heritage and physical context which has become especially
challenging given the country's increasingly urbanised environment. Today Japan's contemporary
architecture is admired perhaps as much as its traditional counterpart with which it often
maintains a meaningful dialogue. Botond Bognar's Architectural Guide - Japan introduces more
than 700 of the most prominent examples of this fertile architecture in addition to outlining
its development from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in a concise historical essay.
All texts are accompanied by over 980 colour photos all taken by the author and over 90
drawings. Detailed information about each entry is enhanced by geodata in the form of QR codes.
Featured in the book are the works of such renowned architects as Tadao Ando Jun Aoki Atelier
Bow Wow Shigeru Ban Norman Foster Sou Fujimoto Hiroshi Hara Itsuko Hasegawa Herzog¿&¿de
Meuron Junya Ishigami Arata Isozaki Toyo Ito Kiyonori Kikutake Kengo Kuma Kisho Kurokawa
Le Corbusier Kunio Maekawa Fumihiko Maki Togo Murano MVRDV Hiroshi Nakamura Nikken Sekkei
Ltd. Ryue Nishizawa Jean Nouvel Renzo Piano Antonin Raymond Junzo Sakakura SANAA Kazuyo
Sejima Kazuo Shinohara Seiichi Shirai Shin Takamatsu Kenzo Tange Yoshio Taniguchi Rafael
Vinoly Frank Lloyd Wright Riken Yamamoto Koichi Yasuda and many others
