{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-tokyo-von-hiroshi-watanabe-und-ulf-meyer","title":"The Architecture of Tokyo","description":"The Tôkyô region is the most populous metropolitan area in the world and a place of extraordinary vitality. \nThe political, economic and cultural center of Japan, Tôkyô also exerts an enormous international\ninfluence. In fact the region has been pivotal to the nation’s affairs for centuries. Its sheer size, its \nconcentration of resources and institutions and its long history have produced buildings of\nmany different types from many different eras.\nOver 500 buildings are presented in this guide, from 15th-century Buddhist temples to 21st-century \ncultural buildings, from venerable folkhouses to works by leading contemporary architects of Japan \nsuch as Kenzô Tange, Fumihiko Maki, Arata Isozaki, Hiroshi Hara, Toyô Itô, Riken Yamamoto and \nTadao Ando as well as by foreign architects such as Norman Foster, Peter Eisenman and\nSteven Holl.\nThe buildings are arranged chronologically and grouped into six periods: the medieval period (1185–1600), \nthe Edo period (1600–1868), the Meiji period (1868–1912), the Taishô and early Shôwa period (1912–1945), \nthe post-war reconstruction period (1945–1970) and the contemporary period (1970 until today). This\ncomprehensive coverage permits those interested in Japanese architecture or culture to focus on a \nparticular era or to examine buildings within a larger temporal framework. A concise discussion\nof the history of the region and the architecture of Japan develops a context within which the individual \nworks may be viewed. When this guide was first published in 2001, it was the only one to introduce in \none volume the architecture of the Tôkyô region, encompassing Tôkyô proper and adjacent prefectures, \nin all its remarkable variety. Having been out of print for some time, it is now being reissued in a revised \nand extended edition, this time with Japan expert Ulf Meyer as co-author.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783869050584\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783869050584","offer_id":57765122605381,"sku":"9783869050584","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/059608c0-e7f5-4ad4-b138-95fb60f094bb.jpg?v=1778820660","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-architecture-of-tokyo-von-hiroshi-watanabe-und-ulf-meyer","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}