Sharing Tokyo

Artifice and the Social World

Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota

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English

Actar Publishers
01 August 2023

City & town planning - architectural aspects

Sharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo.

The book questions how 'artifice' and the 'social world' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that can also be used in other contexts.

With contributions by: Mustafa K. Abadan, Shin Aiba, Homi K. Bhabha, Kenta Hasegawa, Kozo Kadowaki, Hiroto Kobayashi, Masami Kobayashi, Japan Research Initiative Team at Harvard GSD, Jouji Kurumado, Seiji M. Lippit, Mitsuyoshi Miyazaki, Mayumi Mori, Mohsen Mostafavi, Jo Nagasaka, Erika Nakagawa, Don O'keefe, Yoshihiko Oshima, Kayoko Ota, Jordan Sand, Yoshihiko Sone, Tsubame Architects, Riken Yamamoto, Shun Yoshie

Edited by: Mohsen Mostafavi, Kayoko Ota
Imprint: Actar Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781638400608
ISBN 10: 1638400601
Pages: 428
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mohsen Mostafavi is an architect and educator who served as dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. As a professor of design, he is now leading the Japan Research Initiative, among other programs. His books include Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political (2017). Kayoko Ota is an architectural curator and editor. Before joining the Japan Research Initiative at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she curated Japan-based projects for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and was commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale.

Reviews for Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World

""Nicely illustrated throughout, ""Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World"" is an original, informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to the growing library of Architectural Criticism and Urban/Land Use Planning that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, corporate, college, and university library Architecture collections and supplemental curriculum Architectural Studies lists."" --Midwest Book Review ""This book offers an astute and comprehensive look at a new movement that seeks to address the very serious problems Tokyo faces intuited by many residents, but which are difficult to grasp without a broader speculative framework."" --Shigeru Ban ""Tokyo is a place where small grass-roots neighborhood projects arise in the interstices between massive developments. Sharing Tokyo analyzes these conflicting trends and demonstrates how the tension between economic activity and humanity serves as the engine for a city in a constant state of transition."" --Toyo Ito