Tokyolife is is a lavish, whip-smart insider’s guide to the last few years of cultural production in one of the world’s great centers of creativity, and is organized around the physical city, and the role of the megalopolis itself as both the site and inspiration for an unprecedented explosion in design and the visual arts.

Tokyo and its avant-garde occupy a disproportionate role in the creation of global culture. Represented in this book is the work of over eighty creatives—painters, architects, interior designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, filmmakers and photographers, many highly influential, and some as yet unknown in the West. Announcing a generational transition, the divergent personalities profiled in the book have collectively engineered entirely new ways of seeing, expanding their influence well beyond Japan and into the arts of Asia, Western Europe, and North America.

IAN LUNA is the author and editor of several books on architecture, urbanism and design for Rizzoli, including New New York: Architecture of A City (2003); Imagining Ground Zero (2004, with Suzanne Stephens and Ron Broadhurst); Retail: Architecture and Shopping (2005), and On the Edge: Ten Architects from China (2007, with Yung Ho Chang and Thomas Tsang).

MORI TOSHIKO is principal of her firm, Toshiko Mori Architect, in New York City. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has been Department Chair since 2002.

LAUREN A. GOULD is an art director and writer based in New York City. She is currently working on a number of monographs on photography and fashion.

TOM MES & JASPER SHARP co-edit Midnighteye.com, the premier English-language website on Japanese cinema. Tom Mes is an authority on contemporary Japanese cinema and is the author of several books, including Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto (2005), Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike (2004), and with Jasper Sharp, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film.

Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications (1 April 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0847829251
ISBN-13: 9780847829255
Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 21.6 x 4.1 cm