From Publishers Weekly
An architect for 40 years, with projects around the world (and currently involved with the World Trade Center reconstruction), Tokyo-born Maki collects 21 wise, enlightening essays on the theory, practice and product of modern urban architecture. Throughout, Maki's style is clear, simple and confident; he has near-global knowledge of architectural history and culture, but never overreaches (on architect Yoshio Taniguchi: "I do not know what sort of influence this essentially European Harvard education exerted on Taniguchi... but his works have subsequently evolved and the rigorous nature of his details... are by no means Mediterranean but, rather, Germanic in character"). Though Maki admirably sticks to the facts-what he sees and what he knows-he's at his most engaging when he leans toward the personal, as in an essay beginning with a discussion of his own trajectory in the field: "I was inevitably drawn to the issue of identity in a mass society and the search for ways in which cities might accommodate individual places with identity." Students and professionals will find Maki a smart and trustworthy source, and Maki's straightforward style should accommodate general readers with a genuine interest. 100 illus.
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"Tokyo-born Maki collects 21 wise, enlightening essays on the theory, practice and product of modern urban architecture. Throughout, Maki's style is clear, simple and confident; he has near-global knowledge of architectural history and culture, but never overreaches ... Students and professionals will find Maki a smart and trustworthy source, and Maki's straightforward style should accommodate general readers with a genuine interest."
— Publisher's Weekly

"Maki's elegant essays blend intellectual autobiography, a distinguished insider's view of the development of postwar Japanese architecture, and insightful theorizing on architectural and urban form. At a moment when major projects by Maki are making their appearance in the United States, the publication of these essays in collected form is particularly timely and welcome."
—William J. Mitchell, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, and author of World's Greatest Architect

"In part a sensitive memoir of the cities of his childhood and youth and in part a mature reflection on the triumphs and limits of architecture and urban planning in the late modern world, this collection of lucid essays by the distinguished cosmopolitan architect Fumihiko Maki testifies to the fact that today we are all citizens of the same world, moved by very similar spiritual pleasures and by equally comparable environmental threats."
—Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University

"Fumihiko Maki's essays demonstrate how a gifted architect absorbs divergent influences—lessons of mentors, pivotal academic and professional debates, travel observations, and reflections on his own culture—and transforms them into material for his own creative process. By turns, his sense of curiosity and wonder, his rigorous analytical mind, and his keen appreciation of everyday urban life reveal themselves in these pages as the basis for conceiving and implementing extraordinary design ideas."
—Andrea Leers, Architect, Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

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