Modern Architecture in Japan Damien Heinisch the photographs are rigorously composed

the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed

Participants in roundtable conversations include: Simon Baker

associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania

where there is a long tradition of watching the setting sun

Tony Cragg

Modern Architecture in Japan Damien Heinisch the photographs are rigorously composedManfredo Tafuri (19351994), the celebrated Italian architectural historian, published Larchitettura moderna in Giappone in 1964. At the time, Tafuri was twenty nine years old and had not visited Japan. His slim volume on the countrys postwar architecture was the first in a series of guidebooks on contemporary architecture under the direction of Leonardo Benevolo. Here, translated into English for the first time, the book presents a rare outsiders view