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Azby Brown Joseph Cali Architecture English
Author: Azby Brown,Joseph Cali
ISBN13: 978-4770026118
Title: The Japanese Dream House: How Technology and Tradition Are Shaping New Home Design
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Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc (February 1, 2001)
Pages: 132

The Japanese Dream House: How Technology and Tradition Are Shaping New Home Design by Azby Brown,Joseph Cali



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Online interview with azby brown. Could you tell us a little about your background? "I was born in California but raised in New Orleans from the age of two. I was very interested in the arts from an early age, especially performing arts - music, theater - but partly through the influence of some very good teachers I had at Yale, I began to focus on visual art and architecture in my twenties. In a nutshell, The Japanese Dream House is about the changing lifestyle of average Japanese, specifically the role of manufactured 'system-built' homes in satisfying housing needs and in influencing the notion of what an attractive Japanese lifestyle might be like.

Azby Brown, in his third book on the architecture of Japan, delves into the intricacies of the modern Japanese home by first reaching back some thousand years to its roots to follow its development to the present day. He then steams ahead to explore the state-of-the art Japanese home, with its recycled materials, extruded 30-foot-long woodlike stairway handrails, and dozens of other unique touches. In page after page of this lushly illustrated, full-color volume, Brown presents his take on Japan's ultra-chic, high-tech yet serene home designs. The Japanese Dream House is one of the first.

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ISBN13: 9784770026118. Select Format: Hardcover. Select Condition: Like New. - Very Good. This is an illustrated exploration of the synthesis of the modern and traditional in the development of a highly original and influential contemporary living space design that is both progressive and innovative.

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Azby Brown is an architect and design theorist whose in-depth study of Japan provides inspiration for the future of sustainable urban living. Raised in New Orleans, Azby originally studied theater and dance until a series of chance opportunities led him to move to Tokyo and build a life and career devoted to smart design. How would you describe your current work and where it’s taking you? I studied architecture and sculpture at Yale, and I came to Japan with this interest in the oldest traditional ways of building - I was really fascinated with that.

This book complements "The Genius of Japanese Carpentry" by Azby Brown. Lots of construction diagrams showing how a temple is put together. Title: Japan - Culture of Wood: Buildings Objects Techniques. The Japanese Home Stylebook: Architectural Details and Motifs. Author: Saburo Yamagata. The Japanese House: A Tradition for Contemporary Architecture. Author: Heinrich Engel.

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The modern Japanese home has always attracted Western architects and designers. With a panache that often borders on the outrageous, modern homes in Japan blend such traditional elements as shoji screens and tatam-matted rooms with what, at first glance, appear to be thoroughly contemporary elements of the Western home.

And yet a closer look reveals impressively subtle alterations. Carefully crafted wooden surfaces throughout the home gleam with a delicate Japanese sense of color and rhythm. The kitchen and living areas are fitted out with modern appliances or furniture, yet the subtle variations in the wall placement and space usage suggest that a different sensibility is at work.

Azby Brown, in his third book on Japanese architecture, delves into the intricacies of the modern Japanese home by first reaching back to its roots (some thousand years earlier) to follow its development to the present day, then steams ahead to explore the state-of-the-art Japanese home, with its recycled materials, extruded synthetic wood decks, and dozens of unique touches that can only be found in Japan. Designer Joseph Cali has supplied countless intriguing modern and historical images, many of them appearing here in an English-language publication for the first time.

In page after page of this lushly illustrated, all-color volume, Brown presents his take on Japan's high-tech yet serene home designs. The Japanese Dream House is one of the first English language books to appear in a long time on the subject and is sure to prove an indispensable volume for architects, designers, and homeowners for years to come.

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Full color

223 color photos Includes rare historical photos

10 line drawings

New architectural photos never published before

Reviews: 4
Munimand
Wife loves it
Shou
Fascinating, beautiful and detailed
Malojurus
I was expecting a coffee table book on pretty Japanese manufactured houses, but was pleasantly surprised it had depth.
The book begins with a historical look at Japanese housing and the influences of society, aesthetics, and economics on today's housing market. It details the influences of government legislation on the rigid feudal class system; Japanese minimalism of the poor versus the ostentation of the aristocracy; and important events from the Edo period to today's ongoing recession.
Later on, it details the rise of system housing manufacturers, building techniques, and the sales process a family would undertake to purchase a home. While it does feature a few architectural one-offs, the authors discredits these as something mass market consumers have no interest in (no different than North America). Sidebars go into details on things like roofing materials, shoji screens, tatami matting, to bathroom design.
This book is the perfect beginning guide to Japanese manufactured system housing. To complain that this book is a sales brochure for Misawa would be like complaining that a book on cars has too many pictures of Cadillacs and Mercedes and not enough Dacias and Ladas. The pictures are very good, but I would have liked to see a wider variety of homes and interiors, but that can be easily done by picking up a Japanese housing consumer magazine like Plus 1 Housing.
Zetadda
This book is very interesting for the people who want to know the evolution of house style after II world war:
The evolution of styles from american style to tecnological style.
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