Made in Tokyo is Atelier Bow-Wow's cult field guide to the buildings Tokyo's architects would rather disown — functional hybrids born of urban necessity rather than aesthetic ambition, documented with forensic affection.
About This Book
Tokyo's urban fabric is unlike any other city's, and Made in Tokyo is the book that makes sense of why. Atelier Bow-Wow catalogued over 70 extraordinary architectural combinations — golf driving range nets suspended above spaghetti restaurants, structures stacked and spliced in defiance of conventional typology — and presented them not as curiosities but as a legitimate vernacular. Where mainstream architectural discourse looks away, this book looks directly. It is essential reading for anyone interested in urbanism, Japanese architecture, and the generative logic of constraint. The result is a study of Tokyo's built environment that is at once deadpan and deeply serious.
Key Features
- 192 pages of annotated photographs and drawings documenting over 70 hybrid building types across Tokyo
- Published by Kajima Institute
What You'll Discover
- How functional necessity — rather than design intention — produces Tokyo's most inventive spatial combinations
- A taxonomy of hybrid urban structures that challenge Western assumptions about architectural typology
- The visual and spatial logic of Tokyo's architectural grassroots, from ground level to rooftop
- Why buildings that architects dismiss as failures of planning are in fact a coherent and replicable urban system
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 150 x 210mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784306044210
- Publisher: Kajima Institute
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urban designers with an interest in Japanese cities, students of urbanism and architectural theory, and anyone who finds more to learn from the overlooked edges of the built environment than from its celebrated centres.