Boyarsky, Nicholas,

Urban flashes Asia : new architecture and urbanism in Asia / edited by Nicholas Boyarsky, Petet Lang - West Sussex : John Wiley, 2003. - 128 p.

Editorial (Helen Castle). --Introduction: Dirty Cities (Nicholas Boyarsky). Chinatown is Everywhere (Peter Lang). Introduction: Micro--Urbanism (Ti--Nan Chi). Way of Display: Urban Tactics in the Context of the Betel Nut Culture in Taiwan (Karl--Heinz Klopf). Anarchy and Beyond: An interview with Kazuo Shinohara (Hirohisa Hemmi). What is Made in Tokyo? (Yoshharu Tsukamoto). Hyper Complex Living (Nobuyaki Furuya). Gaikoku Mura: Japanese Foreign Country Villages (Sue Barr). In the Age of Indeterminacy: Towards a Non--Visual Pragmaticism (Gary Chang). Pearl River Delta: Lean Planning, Thin Patterns (Laurent Guiterrez & Valerie Portefaix). Bangkok: Liquid Perception (Brian McGrath). Reconstruction Solidarity: The Thao Tribe (Nicholas Boyarsky). Action (Verb) Taipei (Sand Helsel). Modern Heritage: A Terrain of the Question (Guyon Chung). Hanoi (Justine Grahame). Contributors Biographies. AD+ Building Profile Great a Bambooa Wall (Jeremy Melvin). Practice Profile: Yung Ho Chang (Jayne Merkel) Engineering Exegesis Bridging the Gap with Collaborative Design Programs for CAD/CAM (Andre Chaszar). Interior Eye: Architecture Without Architects (Craig Kellogg). Urban Entropy: A Tale of Three Cities (Thomas Deckker). Site Lines: Gooderham and Worta s Distillery, Toronto, Canada (Sean Stanwick).


Urban Flashes Asia, from Wileya s Architectural Design series is a bold conceptual and architectural response to Eurocentric research in architecture. It introduces a network of globally dispersed architects and theorists working primarily in Asia

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Urbanism-Asia
Cities and towns -- Asia -- Growth
Architecture--Asia -- 21st century
Architecture --Asia -- 20th century

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