
Architects in Memories
Toshio Nakamura
Ashley Simone(Editor)
Oro Editions (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 12. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-966515-36-4 (ISBN)
Description
As the first English translation of Toshio Nakamura's 2015 memoir, this expanded facsimile of Architects in Memories offers a new audience access to a seminal text that intimately charts the evolution of modern global architecture from a post-war Japanese perspective. As the founder/editor of the influential architecture magazine a+u, Nakamura was deeply engaged, personally and professionally, with leading figures in architecture worldwide, such as Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, and Peter Eisenman. His diary records reflections from 1953 to 2015 and later became his memoir, chronicling personal observations, pivotal moments, interactions, and observations that collectively offer insight into the making of postmodern architecture and architectural culture.
The translation by Junichi Satoh carries images by Michael Moran. It is complimented by other media, expanding the original volume with essays by Kenneth Frampton and Ashley Simone, and images of each cover produced during Nakamura's tenure as the editor-in-chief of a+u.
The translation by Junichi Satoh carries images by Michael Moran. It is complimented by other media, expanding the original volume with essays by Kenneth Frampton and Ashley Simone, and images of each cover produced during Nakamura's tenure as the editor-in-chief of a+u.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
200 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-966515-36-4 (9781966515364)
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Persons
Kenneth Frampton, born in 1930, is one of the world's most renowned architectural theorists, the author of the world bestseller Modern Architecture: A Critical History, and a professor at Columbia University, New York. Ashley Simone is the editorial director of Axiomatic Editions and Architectural Design (AD) and an adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.