Full Description
Urban Flashes Asia, from Wileya s Architectural Design series is a bold conceptual and architectural response to Eurocentric research in architecture. It introduces a network of globally dispersed architects and theorists working primarily in Asia. The contributors of Urban Flashes Asia are a globally active body that is fast developing a rapidly evolving language of urban imagination and invention. This is a new and intriguing version of events which is in step with the nature of urban developments in Asia, as much of the region continues to come alive.
* The latest in Wileya s Architectural Design series * Featuring articles and projects inside and beyond Asia, it also includes interviews with Kazuo Shinohara and Nobuyaki Furuya and a Practice Profile of the Chinese architect Yung Ho Chang * All participants are leading architects/theorists in their own countries and this publication will introduce for the first time a number of key players and their work * Unique photo essays together with a vast body of architectural and art projects makes this a visual and exciting publication * The first comprehensive publication on the Urban Flashes Group, this book should be of interest to architects, artists and urban designers
Contents
Editorial (Helen Castle). Introduction: Dirty Cities (Nicholas Boyarsky). Chinatown is Everywhere (Peter Lang). Introduction: Micro--Urbanism (Ti--Nan Chi). Way of Display: Urban Tactics in the Context of the Betel Nut Culture in Taiwan (Karl--Heinz Klopf). Anarchy and Beyond: An interview with Kazuo Shinohara (Hirohisa Hemmi). What is Made in Tokyo? (Yoshharu Tsukamoto). Hyper Complex Living (Nobuyaki Furuya). Gaikoku Mura: Japanese Foreign Country Villages (Sue Barr). In the Age of Indeterminacy: Towards a Non--Visual Pragmaticism (Gary Chang). Pearl River Delta: Lean Planning, Thin Patterns (Laurent Guiterrez & Valerie Portefaix). Bangkok: Liquid Perception (Brian McGrath). Reconstruction Solidarity: The Thao Tribe (Nicholas Boyarsky). Action (Verb) Taipei (Sand Helsel). Modern Heritage: A Terrain of the Question (Guyon Chung). Hanoi (Justine Grahame). Contributors Biographies. AD+ Building Profile Great a Bambooa Wall (Jeremy Melvin). Practice Profile: Yung Ho Chang (Jayne Merkel) Engineering Exegesis Bridging the Gap with Collaborative Design Programs for CAD/CAM (Andre Chaszar). Interior Eye: Architecture Without Architects (Craig Kellogg). Urban Entropy: A Tale of Three Cities (Thomas Deckker). Site Lines: Gooderham and Worta s Distillery, Toronto, Canada (Sean Stanwick).
