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Public Housing in Japan. The DÅjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years on
Series: - Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Volume: 82
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This first comprehensive English-language examination of the DÅjunkai Foundation (1924-2024) is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Japanese architecture. The DÅjunkai Apartments (1924-1934), the Foundation's best-known work, introduced apartment living to Japan in response to crucial historical and social challenges such as urban reconstruction after the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the emergence of new working and middle classes.
The book's texts, by prominent scholars and architects, as well as a series of original drawings and photographs from the period, bring the work of the DÅjunkai Foundation back to life 100 years after its founding. While the DÅjunkai Apartments have unfortunately been lost in the rapid changes and greedy redevelopment typical of Japanese metropolises, this book seeks to contribute to the preservation of their memory and their significance.
The book's texts, by prominent scholars and architects, as well as a series of original drawings and photographs from the period, bring the work of the DÅjunkai Foundation back to life 100 years after its founding. While the DÅjunkai Apartments have unfortunately been lost in the rapid changes and greedy redevelopment typical of Japanese metropolises, this book seeks to contribute to the preservation of their memory and their significance.
Marco Pompili, Ph.D. (1965), Architect, is a practicing professional and architectural historian. He has taught in universities in Japan and Australia and published monographs and articles on Japanese architecture including DÅjunkai Apartments Tokyo 1924-1934. Collective Housing in Japan and the Modern City (Editrice Librerie Dedalo, 2001).
Contents
Foreword
âYamamoto Riken
Acknowledgments
List of Figures, Plates and Tables
Notes to Readers
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âMarco Pompili
Part 1 Interwar Tokyo and the Emergence of Modern Public Housing
1 Toward Public Housing and the Creation of the DÅjunkai Foundation
âMarco Pompili
2 Interwar Tokyo: The Social Background of the DÅjunkai
âElise K. Tipton
3 The DÅjunkai Apartments through Time
âSatoh Shigeru in conversation with Marco Pompili
Part 2 The DÅjunkai Apartments and the City
4 Transnational Exchanges and DÅjunkai Housing Planning
âCarola Hein with Marco Pompili
5 DÅjunkai: between Form and Function in Interwar Japan
âKen Tadashi Oshima
6 The DÅjunkai Apartments and the City of Tokyo
âJinnai Hidenobu in conversation with Marco Pompili
Part 3 Modernity/Tradition and the DÅjunkai Apartments
7 Cutting-Edge Apartments and Japanese Traditional Interiors
âMarco Pompili
8 Modernity and the DÅjunkai Apartments
âFujimori Terunobu in conversation with Marco Pompili
Part 4 The Demise of the DÅjunkai Foundation and Their Legacy
9 The DÅjunkai Apartments and Urban Redevelopment
âOtsuki Toshio
10 The Postwar Legacy of the DoÌjunkai Apartments
âJohn Leisure
11 Assessing the DÅjunkai Apartments amid Japanâs âScrap and Buildâ Culture
âSatoh Shigeru, Jinnai Hidenobu, and Fujimori Terunobu in conversation with Marco Pompili
Appendix: DÅjunkai Apartments, Selected Drawings
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Foreword
âYamamoto Riken
Acknowledgments
List of Figures, Plates and Tables
Notes to Readers
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âMarco Pompili
Part 1 Interwar Tokyo and the Emergence of Modern Public Housing
1 Toward Public Housing and the Creation of the DÅjunkai Foundation
âMarco Pompili
2 Interwar Tokyo: The Social Background of the DÅjunkai
âElise K. Tipton
3 The DÅjunkai Apartments through Time
âSatoh Shigeru in conversation with Marco Pompili
Part 2 The DÅjunkai Apartments and the City
4 Transnational Exchanges and DÅjunkai Housing Planning
âCarola Hein with Marco Pompili
5 DÅjunkai: between Form and Function in Interwar Japan
âKen Tadashi Oshima
6 The DÅjunkai Apartments and the City of Tokyo
âJinnai Hidenobu in conversation with Marco Pompili
Part 3 Modernity/Tradition and the DÅjunkai Apartments
7 Cutting-Edge Apartments and Japanese Traditional Interiors
âMarco Pompili
8 Modernity and the DÅjunkai Apartments
âFujimori Terunobu in conversation with Marco Pompili
Part 4 The Demise of the DÅjunkai Foundation and Their Legacy
9 The DÅjunkai Apartments and Urban Redevelopment
âOtsuki Toshio
10 The Postwar Legacy of the DoÌjunkai Apartments
âJohn Leisure
11 Assessing the DÅjunkai Apartments amid Japanâs âScrap and Buildâ Culture
âSatoh Shigeru, Jinnai Hidenobu, and Fujimori Terunobu in conversation with Marco Pompili
Appendix: DÅjunkai Apartments, Selected Drawings
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Academics and students in the fields of architecture, town planning, history, Asian and Japanese Studies, as well as architects and practitioners with an interest in Japan, housing, modern architecture, town planning, and urban history.â