Cover — Half Title — Title Page — Copyright Page — Dedication — Table of Contents — Acknowledgments — Introduction: the (dis)continuities of Japanese architecture — Part I: An enduring cultural framework — 1 The land and its people — 2 History and religion — 3 Paroxysm and change — Part II: From modernity to Modernism: 1868-1940 — 4 The search for knowledge and its consequences — 5 Modernism sidetracked on the road to war: 1930-1940 — Part III: From re-birth to economic collapse — 6 Post-war reconstruction, from survival to recovery: 1945-1950 — 7 The Le Corbusier syndrome — 8 Metabolism revisited — 9 Expo ’70: a joyful vision of a new world — 10 The Shinohara School — 11 Postmodernism: apostasy or prophesy? — 12 A decade of excess: life inside the bubble — Part IV: Transitional figures — 13 Witness to war: Fumihiko Maki, Yoshio Tanaguchi and Arata Isozaki — 14 Conflicting identities: Tadao Ando, Itsuko Hasagawa, Toyo Ito, Riken Yamamoto, Chiaki Arai and Shin Takamatsu — 15 Relief and rebuilding: Kazuo Sejima, Kengo Kuma and Jun Aoki — Part V: The next generation — 16 Doing more with less — Atelier Bow Wow, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima: Office in Tokyo — TNA, Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima: Mosaic House — Ryue Nishizawa: House and Garden — Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture: 2004 House — Shuhei Endo: Springtecture — 17 On the surface — Togo Murano: Morigo Office building — Takaharu and Yui Tezuka — Tezuka Architects: Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science — Shuhei Endo: Environmental Education Center in Hyogo and the Tsunami Disaster Prevention Center in Minamiawaji Ciy — Hitoshe Abe: F-Town and the Kanno Museum in Shiogama — Kumiko Inui: Dior, Ginza and Shin-Yatsushiro Pavilion — Jun Aoki and Associates: Louis Vuitton Matsuya Ginza Facade Renewal — Hiroshi Nakamura: Lanvin Boutique