{"product_id":"meanwhile-in-japan","title":"Meanwhile in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn this new volume of the CCA Singles presenting the Meanwhile in Japan conversations, Toyo Ito sat with a group of young architects and academ­ics to discuss how his early work of the 1970s and 1980s took a radical approach to intervening in a newly emerged consumerist culture in Tokyo. As architects elsewhere in the world sought to break through the conventions of modern­ism, Ito attempted to bring new signifi­cance to architecture in a rapidly transforming city, with particular attention to the lives of women in urban society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLed by Koji Ichikawa, the conversation included Mikio Wakabayashi, Kozo Kadowaki, Riken Yamamoto, Makoto Ueda, Yutaro Muraji, Koji Ichikawa, Wakana Hara, and Haruhiko Sunagawa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the third volume in a series presenting conversations between a young generation of architects and scholars and key figures of Japanese architecture (Itsuko Hasegawa, Hiroshi Hara and Toyo Ito) of the 1970s and 1980s who attempted to redefine architecture beyond the doctrine of modernism and address the needs of society at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCCA Singles are short printed one-offs that present one voice, one object, or one event. Ranging from raw source material to edited topical reflections, they propose intimate contact with ideas generated or collected at the CCA (Canadian Centre for Architecture).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e64 pages, 10.8 x 16.2 cm, paperback, Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KLAY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46581941043374,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/6523\/3200\/files\/CCASinglesToyoIto.jpg?v=1749797749","url":"https:\/\/checkout.klay.co.nz\/products\/meanwhile-in-japan","provider":"KLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}