Waro Kishi Works and Projects (Electa 2005) gives a thorough introduction to the Kyoto-based architectural practice. Essay by Masao Furuyama.
Waro Kishi is a leading Japanese Neomodernist. A most promising figure among the younger ‘next generation’ architects who came to champion Neomodernism after the demise of Postmodernism, Kishi is one of very few Japanese architects who never joined ranks with the Postmodernist movements and hence garnered all the mor acclaim when Japan’s ‘bubble economy’ burst in the early 1990s. Kishi designs some of the most truly ‘architectural’ buildings in the world today. Unlike the run of other architects who view for attention with their ‘non-architectural designs, he has kept on making real buildings characterized by a Euclidean clarity enhanced with a certain Japanese aesthetic refinement.
– Masao Furuyama, The Architectural World of Waro Kishi. In: Waro Kishi Works and Projects (Electa, 2005), p.7
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows some small traces of edge wear and some signs of shelf wear, mostly on the back cover.
