Background
Bognar, Botond was born on February 28, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1979. Son of Istvan and Amalia (Toth) Bognar.
(BEYOND THE BUBBLE presents an overview of contemporary Ja...)
BEYOND THE BUBBLE presents an overview of contemporary Japanese architecture following the collapse of the economic bubble of the 1980s and 90s. It includes the work of a selection of the most exciting architects working in Japan today, such as Toyo Ito, Atelier Bow Wow, and Kengo Kuma. BEYOND THE BUBBLE includes essays providing a survey of Japanese architecture from the 1980s to the present day, with detailed treatments of individual products. Written by an influential international expert on Japanese architecture and urbanism, it features a range of buildings, including residential, retail, and public works projects.
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(Contemporary Japanese architecture has, over half a centu...)
Contemporary Japanese architecture has, over half a century, achieved world-wide recognition not only for its highly innovative, often futuristic qualities, but also for its sensitive response to Japan's cultural and physical context in the challenging setting of its increasingly urbanized environment. Today it is admired perhaps as much as its traditional counterpa"rt, with which it often maintains a meaningful dialog. Botond Bognar's "Architectural Guide Japan introduces over 700 of the most prominent examples of this fertile architecture, while outlining its development since the mid-19th century until the present in a concise historical essay. All texts and the individual entries are illustrated with about 750 color photos, all taken by the author, and many drawings. Detailed information about each entry is enhanced by geo-data in the form of QR codes. Featured in the book are the works of such renowned architects as Tadao Ando, Jun Aoki, Atelier Bow Wow, Shigeru Ban, Norman Foster, Sou Fujimoto, Hiroshi Hara, Itsuko Hasegawa, Herzog & de Meuron, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Kiyonori Kikutake, Kengo Kuma, Kisho Kurokawa, Kunio Maekawa, Fumihiko Maki, Togo Murano, MVRDV, Nikken Sekkei Ltd., Ryue Nishizawa, Jean Nouvel, Antonin Raymond, Junzo Sakakura, SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima, Kazuo Shinohara, Shin Takamatsu, Kenzo Tange, Yoshio Taniguchi, Rafael Vinoly, Frank Lloyd Wright, Riken Yamamoto, and many others.
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Bognar, Botond was born on February 28, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1979. Son of Istvan and Amalia (Toth) Bognar.
Bachelor of Architecture, Budapest Technology University, 1968. Master of Architecture, Budapest Technology University, 1972. Postgraduate, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1975.
Master of Arts in Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981.
Architectural designer, Közti, Budapest, 1968-1972;
principal designer/architect-in-charge, Közti, Budapest, 1972-1977;
designer, Design System Architectural Office, Tokyo, 1978;
from assistant professor to associate professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1981-1990;
professor architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1990;
university scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986. Endowed chair professorship Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology inUrban Design, Tokyo U., 1993. Guest speaker, lecturer educational and profl.orgns., United States and worldwide locations, since 1980.
Member Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois.
(Contemporary Japanese architecture has, over half a centu...)
(BEYOND THE BUBBLE presents an overview of contemporary Ja...)
(Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Its Development and C...)
(The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Jap...)
Member American Institute of Architects (associate), Association for Asian Studies, Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, Hungarian Institute Architects, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Concepcion V. Borromeo, August 15, 1975. Children: Balazs, Zsolt, Balint.