Makoto Ueda (architecture critic)
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is an editor and architecture critic.
After graduating in French literature from Waseda University
, Ueda worked as an editor of architectural magazines, notably as chief editor of Toshi Jūtaku.
After graduating in French literature from Waseda University
Waseda University
, abbreviated as , is one of the most prestigious private universities in Japan and Asia. Its main campuses are located in the northern part of Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko, the institution was renamed "Waseda University" in 1902. It is known for its liberal climate...
, Ueda worked as an editor of architectural magazines, notably as chief editor of Toshi Jūtaku.
Books by Ueda
- Anjero Manjarotti: 1955–1964 / Anjero Manjarotti sekkei (: 1955–1964 / , Angelo MangiarottiAngelo MangiarottiAngelo Mangiarotti is an Italian architect and industrial designer.The main concept in his architecture, design and sculpture works is the rise of form through the correct use of matter and technique....
, 1955–64 / The designs of Angelo Mangiarotti). Tokyo: Seidōsha, 1965. - Japan hausu: Uchihanashi konkurīto jūtaku no genzai / Japan House in Ferroconcrete. Tokyo: Graphic-sha, 1988. ISBN 4-7661-0460-9.
- Mayonaka no ie: Ehon kūkan-ron . Tokyo: Sumai-no-toshokan-shuppankyoku, 1989. ISBN 4-7952-0824-7.
- Apātomento: Sekai no yume no shūgō jūtaku . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2003. ISBN 4-582-63400-1.
- Shūgō jūtaku monogatari . Tokyo: Misuzu, 2004. ISBN 4-622-07086-3. A lavishly illustrated book about collective housing in Japan (primarily Tokyo and environs). It is well over three hundred pages long, with about fifty pages devoted to DōjunkaiDojunkaiDōjunkai was a corporation set up a year after the 1923 Kantō earthquake to provide reinforced concrete collective housing in the Tokyo area. Its formal name was Zaidan-hōjin Dōjunkai , i.e. the Dōjunkai corporation...
buildings. The (color) photography for the book is by Hiroh KikaiHiroh Kikaiis a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for three series of monochrome photographs: scenes of buildings in and close to Tokyo, portraits of people in the Asakusa area of Tokyo, and rural and town life in India...
, supplemented by older photographs. The content first appeared in TokyojinTokyojinis a Japanese-language monthly magazine about the history and culture of Tokyo, and culture and leisure in the city. The title is a little-used term, almost a neologism, for somebody from, in or of Tokyo....
from 1997 to 2001.
External links
- Shūgō jūtaku monogatari (publisher's page)