Written by the famous authority on Japanese architecture this book charts the development of the designs of Hiroshi Hara as well as the innovative uses of emerging building technologies. This book wil
Evanescent. Restrained. Ethereal. These are some of the words used to describe the architecture of Kengo Kuma, one of the most heralded of a new generation of Japanese architects. A recent article in
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As the oldest and largest design firm in Japan, Nikken Sekkei employs over two thousand people and boasts of over fourteen thousand completed projects in forty countries. This volume examines their fi
A detailed examination of the beautiful and sensitively realized addition to the famed Portland Japanese Garden by contemporary Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.Kengo Kuma and the Portland Japanese Garde
In tracing the history of neurosurgical endoscopy, Jallo (neurology, pediatrics, and oncology, Johns Hopkins U.) follows the initial use of the procedure in 1910 for treating hydrocephalus ("water on
