Tokyo Perspective (ONLY 50 COPIES - SIGNED)
.jpg)
Kazuya Urakawa
Tokyo Perspective (ONLY 50 COPIES - SIGNED)
Photographs: Kazuya Urakawa
Text: Kazuya Urakawa
Publisher: Reminders Project
134 pages
Pictures: 57
Year: 2016
Comments: Hardcover, 415 x 295 mm. First edition, 2016. Design by Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel. Edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies.
Looking at cityscapes in Tokyo, I often feel as if the city has fallen into a state of amnesia. This feeling is awoken by the scrap-and-build approach that Tokyo has repeated more frequently than any other city in the world, whether due to man-made factors or otherwise. In particular, the twin catastrophes of the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and the Great Tokyo Air Raid (1945) and the subsequent reconstructions thereafter are two of the chief causes.
However, scrap-and-build has been accelerated by economic motives in pursuit of rationality and efficiency since the 1980s, when Japan enjoyed the bubble economy, we commonly see the buildings demolished as young as 50 years old. In contrast, facing a vacant lot after a building was demolished, we cannot remember the building that used to stand there. This indicates not only that buildings truly fall into oblivion after their demolition but also that we don’t take note of them in the city in a meaningful way. Although architecture is generally regarded as an art, I feel that people may not think so in Japan.
Italian architect Aldo Rossi talks about the relation between locus and architecture in the city in his evocative book “Architecture of the city”.
These [locus] outlines delineate the singularity of monuments, of the city, and of buildings, and thus the concept of singularity itself and its limits, where it begins and ends. They trace the relation of architecture to its location ― the place of art ― and thereby its connections to, and the precise articulation of, the locus itself as a singular artifact determined by its space and time, by its topographical dimensions and its form, by its being the seat of succession of ancient and recent events, by its memory. (Aldo Rossi, Architecture of the City, The MIT Press, 1984, P107)
The relation between scrap-and-build and the memory-loss for the city is comparable to two sides of the same coin, and the excessively frequent scrap-and-build approach overtakes the accumulation of memory. I suppose that the memory-lost city can never retrieve those lost memories and will therefore lose singularity ― lose itself.
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
more books tagged »yumi goto« | >> see all
-
Bird, Night and then (Only 55 copies)
by Kenji Chiga
sold -
Dear Japanese (ONLY 70 COPIES)
by Miyuki Okuyama
sold -
The Restoration Will (CEIBA EDT)
by Mayumi Suzuki
sold -
Hiroshima Graph : Rabbits abandon their children (ONLY 72 COPI...
by Yoshikatsu Fujii
sold -
The Restoration Will (ONLY 87 COPIES)
by Mayumi Suzuki
sold
more books tagged »tokyo« | >> see all
-
TOKYO UNTITLED (SIGNED)
by Renato D'Agostin
Euro 250 -
Tokyo-Ga
by Arnaud Lemorillon
Euro 19 -
Tokyo (Signed and dedicated copy)
by Hyonchi Cho
sold -
TOKYO COMPRESSION THREE SIGNED
by Michael Wolf
sold -
Shibuya Scramble (Signed)
by Jesper Haynes
sold -
Tokyo Diaries (Signed)
by André Príncipe
sold
more books tagged »architecture« | >> see all
-
PASSENT LES HEURES BLANCHES
by Yannig Hedel
Euro 80 -
Architecture
by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Euro 150 -
E.D.S.A (LTD SIGNED EDT)
by Elisabeth Neudörfl
sold -
Elasticity
by Aglaia Konrad
Euro 180 -
Kleine Fotoenzyklopädie (SIGNED)
by Guadalupe Ruiz
sold -
Strassen : Fotografie 1976 bis 1995
by Thomas Struth
sold
more books tagged »japanese« | >> see all
-
Concrete octopus
by Osamu Kanemura
sold -
INVERSION(Arles Edition of 80 copies) last one!
by Daisuke Yokota
Euro 570 -
Red String (ONLY 35 COPIES)
by Yoshikatsu Fujii
Euro 350 -
Kagekiha / Agitators (Signed)
by Kazuo Kitai
Euro 30 -
Engaru
by Osamu Wataya
sold -
Maternal Deities (last copy)
by Yasuo Higa
sold
more books tagged »signed« | >> see all
-
Bill Henson (ltd Edition + Signed C Print)
by Bill Henson
sold -
Paradigmes (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Antoine d'Agata
sold -
The Promise (SIGNED)
by Vasantha Yogananthan
sold -
Stills (Sealed copy)
by Katrien de Blauwer
sold -
Proxemics (LTD & SIGNED) (BACK IN STOCK)
by Renato D'Agostin
sold -
Nippon Gekijo Shashincho / Japan, a Photo-Theater (Signed)
by Daido Moriyama
sold
more books tagged »limited edition« | >> see all
-
Fragment II (Signed) (Only 30 copies)
by Tokio Ito
sold -
You wait (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Roman Pyatkovka
Euro 120 -
My Lagos (SPECIAL LTD EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Robin Hammond
sold -
Requiem (SIGNED)
by Goran Bertok
sold -
Hodophylax (ONLY 111 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Michiko Hayashi
sold -
Before the War (LTD & SIGNED)
by Alejandro Cartagena
sold
more books tagged »reminders project« | >> see all
-
Happn (ONLY 56 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Kenji Chiga
sold -
Recruit (Handmade book ltd edt 147 copies signed)
by Hiroshi Okamoto
sold -
Snowflakes Dog Man (ONLY 69 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Hajime Kimura
sold -
Picture of My Life (signed)
by Junpei Ueda
sold -
Hiroshima Graph - Everlasting Flow (Ltd edition of 75)
by Yoshikatsu Fujii
Euro 300 -
Mišo Bukumirović (Only 91 copies)
by Hajime Kimura
Euro 180