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is an editor and architecture critic.
After graduating in French literature from
Waseda University
, mottoeng = Independence of scholarship
, established = 21 October 1882
, type = Private
, endowment =
, president = Aiji Tanaka
, city = Shinjuku
, state = Tokyo
, country = Japan
, students = 47,959
, undergrad = 39,382
, postgrad ...
, 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 Mangiarotti
Angelo Mangiarotti (26 February 1921 – 2 July 2012) was an Italian architect and industrial designer. His designs were mostly for industrial buildings and railway stations. In 1994 he received the Compasso d'Oro award of the Associazione ...
, 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. .
*''Mayonaka no ie: Ehon kūkan-ron'' (, Houses late at night). Tokyo: Sumai-no-toshokan-shuppankyoku, 1989. .
*''Apātomento: Sekai no yume no shūgō jūtaku'' (, The condominium: The world dream of collective housing). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2003. .
*''Shūgō jūtaku monogatari'' (, The story of collective housing). Tokyo: Misuzu, 2004. . 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
Dōjunkai
Dōjunkai (''shinjitai'': , ''kyūjitai'': ) was a corporation set up a year after the 1923 Kantō earthquake to provide reinforced concrete (and thus earthquake- and fire-resistant) collective housing in the Tokyo area. Its formal name was ''Za ...
buildings. The (color) photography for the book is by
Hiroh Kikai
was a Japanese photographer best known within Japan for four 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 and Turkey. He pursu ...
, supplemented by older photographs. The content first appeared in ''
Tokyojin is 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.
History and profile
The first issue of ' ...
'' from 1997 to 2001.
See also
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Architecture criticism Architecture criticism is the critique of architecture. Everyday criticism relates to published or broadcast critiques of buildings, whether completed or not, both in terms of news and other criteria. In many cases, criticism amounts to an assessmen ...
Notes
External links
*
Shūgō jūtaku monogatari' (publisher's page)
1935 births
Living people
Architecture critics
Japanese critics
Japanese writers
People from Tokyo
Japanese magazine editors
Waseda University alumni
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