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	Toyo Ito: Works Projects Writings Author: Andrea Maffei, editor Publisher: Electa Architecture Year: 2002
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ArchitectureWeek— The work of Japanese architect Toyo Ito, demonstrating experiments with materials and gravity.
	Tadao Ando. Complete Works Author: Philip Jodidio Publisher: Taschen Year: 2004
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ArchitectureWeek— Tadao Ando is one of the world's greatest living architects. He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes; the Pritzker, Carlesberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This book, created at the height of Ando's career, brings together the complete works to date. It is impressive in both size and content. The photography, designs, and writings are all illuminating insights into the mind of the master of concrete.
	Kengo Kuma: Selected Works Author: Botond Bognar Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Year: 2005
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ArchitectureWeek— Kengo Kuma is among a new generation of Japanese architects. Increasingly the focus of international renown, Kuma's work is characterized by a delicate simplicity and minimalism, incorporating a wide range of ephemeral transparencies. His vocabulary of metal, wooden, bamboo, and stone screens, his sensitivity to site, and his attention to the ecological and prevailing social context of his work are all explored through his recent projects.
	FOBA: Buildings Author: Katsu Umebayashi, Thomas Daniell, Michael Webb, Peter Allison, and Kazuhiro Kojima Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Year: 2005
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ArchitectureWeek— FOBA, a celebrated, decade-old architectural practice based in Kyoto, Japan looks beyond the aesthetic of minimalism, instead finding inspiration in the relationships between structure and site: undulating lines, overlapping cubes, and interpenetrating forms. This monograph features ten projects from the expressionistic to the austere, including five prototypes for standardized and affordable yet humane housing.
	Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA Author: Yuko Hasegawa Publisher: Phaidon Press Year: 2006
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ArchitectureWeek— The Tokyo-based collaboration SANAA has a signature minimalist style, which has made its mark in the architects' native Japan and is now making inroads in the United States. They have built cultural landmarks and high-profile commercial buildings and have become known for their innovative use of space and light within urban building design.
	Shuhei Endo: Paramodern Architecture Author: Hiroyuki Suzuki Publisher: Phaidon Press Year: 2006
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ArchitectureWeek— Japanese architect Shuhei Endo is an architect who distinctly favors steel as the material in the buildings he designs and continually experiments with its infinite possibilities. His approach is most evident in the "great roofs" that house Endo-designed offices, such as Rooftecture N (Nisinomiya, Hyogo, 1998), or spaces for relaxation and meetings, such as Rooftecture T (Fukui, 1997), as well as private homes, such as Springtecture H (Harima, 1998) and Rooftecture M (Maruoka, 2001). Born in 1960 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, he graduated in 1986 from the Kyoto School of Art and then joined the Osamu Ishii & Biken Associates architectural studio. In 1988 he founded the Shuhei Endo Institute in Osaka and began teaching at Kinki University, Kobe Design University and the Fukui Institute of Technology. In addition to the many essays included in this monograph the book also contains extensive photographs, illustrations, a biography and an bibliography of Shuhei Endo's works.
	The Top Japanese Architects Author: May Cambert Publisher: Atrium Publishers Group Year: 2005
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ArchitectureWeek— This second volume in the Top Architects series is dedicated to Japanese architects such as Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Arata Isozaki, and Waro Kishi. Each of the profiled works includes a biographical summary, photos, and drawings.

 
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