{"product_id":"the-critical-house-von-undefined","title":"The Critical House","description":"Highly praised for its aesthetics and daring design, Japanese architecture has been rooted in socio-critical discourse since World War II. Especially in the 1970s, the house served as a means of criticism and strategic positioning on this “intellectual battlefield”. In the 1990s, Toyo Ito questioned this approach. What followed was a comprehensive debate on the changing relationship between housing, contemporary architecture and society, which was detrimental to criticism – and reflects the global shift towards so-called post-critical philosophy.\nIn this book, 20 Japanese architects – including Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Kentaro Yamazaki – reflect on this change in interviews and essays, revealing a lively, albeit more subtle, form of criticism in contemporary practice.\n\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783037613269\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWords from 20 Contemporary Japanese Architects\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783037613269","offer_id":56713455927621,"sku":"9783037613269","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/33f6313d-91b1-4c1b-8102-31cadc3531e9.jpg?v=1777869278","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-critical-house-von-undefined","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}