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Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo

Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo

Ryue Nishizawa
4.1/5 ( ratings)
The book reconsiders the theme of living in a city by exploring new approaches that reveal a different way of integrating projects into the existing city. Due to their scale, extensive built environment, and efforts to grow the city from within, London and Tokyo face similar urban development issues but occupy cultural contexts in which themes of proximity, privacy, community, and public space take on different meanings and require distinct solutions. The housing projects of Nishizawa and Taylor show how inhabitants can live in a house, and, at the same time, enlarge the scale of their living to the neighbourhood and the city. They introduce, within the specificity of their cultures and philosophies, the idea that a housing project is a way of contributing to the atmosphere, the character and the life of the city.

The book contains statements by Nishizawa and Taylor framing their approaches and ideas, accompanied by images and explanation of their projects and a discussion between them, as well as essays by Giovanna Borasi focusing on the relevance of this topic today, and by Peter Allison framing the architecta s approaches in a historical perspective and within the two cultures and a preface by Mirko Zardini.

Cet ouvrage considA]re le vivre en milieu urbain en explorant de nouvelles approches pour intAgrer des projets de construction da habitations au sein de la ville existante. Tokyo et Londres sont confrontAes A des problA]mes de dAveloppement comparables, Atant donnA leur taille, leur urbanisation excessive et leurs efforts pour se dAvelopper au coeur mAame de la ville. Toutefois, les contextes culturels sont diffArents, les notions de voisinage, la espace privA et public, la collectivitA na ont pas la mAame signification et requiA]rent des solutions diffArenciAes.

Les projets des deux architectes japonais et britannique Ryue Nishizawa et Stephen Taylor montrent comment des habitants peuvent vivre dans leur maison, tout en Alargissant leur espace de vie A la Achelle de leur environnement immAdiat et de la ville. Nishizawa et Taylor, chacun avec ses spAcificitAs culturelles et philosophiques, indiquent comment un projet da habitation peut contribuer A la atmosphA]re, au caractA]re et A la vie de la ville. Ils dAveloppent leur dAmarche et leurs idAes au cours da un dialogue et dans de courtes dAclarations, accompagnAes par des photos et des explications sur leurs projets. Giovanna Borasi constate la pertinence du sujet pour notre Apoque dans un essai Aclairant, et Peter Allison met en perspective historique et culturelle la dAmarche des deux architectes.
Language
English
Pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers
Release
December 08, 2008
ISBN
3037781505
ISBN 13
9783037781500

Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo

Ryue Nishizawa
4.1/5 ( ratings)
The book reconsiders the theme of living in a city by exploring new approaches that reveal a different way of integrating projects into the existing city. Due to their scale, extensive built environment, and efforts to grow the city from within, London and Tokyo face similar urban development issues but occupy cultural contexts in which themes of proximity, privacy, community, and public space take on different meanings and require distinct solutions. The housing projects of Nishizawa and Taylor show how inhabitants can live in a house, and, at the same time, enlarge the scale of their living to the neighbourhood and the city. They introduce, within the specificity of their cultures and philosophies, the idea that a housing project is a way of contributing to the atmosphere, the character and the life of the city.

The book contains statements by Nishizawa and Taylor framing their approaches and ideas, accompanied by images and explanation of their projects and a discussion between them, as well as essays by Giovanna Borasi focusing on the relevance of this topic today, and by Peter Allison framing the architecta s approaches in a historical perspective and within the two cultures and a preface by Mirko Zardini.

Cet ouvrage considA]re le vivre en milieu urbain en explorant de nouvelles approches pour intAgrer des projets de construction da habitations au sein de la ville existante. Tokyo et Londres sont confrontAes A des problA]mes de dAveloppement comparables, Atant donnA leur taille, leur urbanisation excessive et leurs efforts pour se dAvelopper au coeur mAame de la ville. Toutefois, les contextes culturels sont diffArents, les notions de voisinage, la espace privA et public, la collectivitA na ont pas la mAame signification et requiA]rent des solutions diffArenciAes.

Les projets des deux architectes japonais et britannique Ryue Nishizawa et Stephen Taylor montrent comment des habitants peuvent vivre dans leur maison, tout en Alargissant leur espace de vie A la Achelle de leur environnement immAdiat et de la ville. Nishizawa et Taylor, chacun avec ses spAcificitAs culturelles et philosophiques, indiquent comment un projet da habitation peut contribuer A la atmosphA]re, au caractA]re et A la vie de la ville. Ils dAveloppent leur dAmarche et leurs idAes au cours da un dialogue et dans de courtes dAclarations, accompagnAes par des photos et des explications sur leurs projets. Giovanna Borasi constate la pertinence du sujet pour notre Apoque dans un essai Aclairant, et Peter Allison met en perspective historique et culturelle la dAmarche des deux architectes.
Language
English
Pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers
Release
December 08, 2008
ISBN
3037781505
ISBN 13
9783037781500

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