Japan is one of the few countries in the world today with an ability to foster on a broad scale a culture of high quality contemporary modern architecture and a futuristic urbanism.

Notwithstanding recent economic difficulties, diversity and innovation in design continue to shape the built environment with astonishing results.

Benefiting from the legacies of both Eastern and Western traditions, the widespread application of the latest technologies and responding boldly, but often critically, to the rapid encroachments of the information age, Japanese architects are shaping the architecture of the future with all its promises, doubts and contradictions.

From the contents:
Introduction: Botond Bognar
Articles: Kisho Kurokawa, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Masaharu Takasaki
Projects: Tadao Ando, Hiroshi Hara, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Fumihiko Maki, Shin Takamatsu, Masaharu Takasaki, Yoshio Taniguchi, Riken Yamamoto
Technology: The Osaka Dome by Nikken Sekkei
Urban design: Kisho Kurokawa
Landscape project: M.S. Watanabe
The Schools