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From: Interior Design | Date: October 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Edited by Stanley Abercrombie

Japan-ness in Architecture

Stanley Abercrombie

by Arata Isozaki, foreword by Toshiko Mori

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, $30

369 pages, 54 black-and-white illustrations

Japan's architecture, interiors, and objects today hold the high ground occupied once by Scandinavia and later by Italy: They manage to be both clearly modern and clearly Japanese. In this study, which Arata Isozaki has been developing for 20 years, the noted architect asks what it means for a design to be "Japanese" in an age of globalization.

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