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Asahi jūtaku zuanshū: Kenshō chūshō jūtaku 85an [Asahi housing designs: small and medium size housing competition, 85 plans]. WITH: Asahi jūtaku shashinshū [Photo book of winners of the Asahi Housing Plan Competition]. Volume 1 and 2 (complete)

Asahi jūtaku zuanshū: Kenshō chūshō jūtaku 85an [Asahi housing designs: small and medium size housing competition, 85 plans]. WITH: Asahi jūtaku shashinshū [Photo book of winners of the Asahi Housing Plan Competition]. Volume 1 and 2 (complete)

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Asahi jūtaku zuanshū: Kenshō chūshō jūtaku 85an [Asahi housing designs: small and medium size housing competition, 85 plans]. WITH: Asahi jūtaku shashinshū [Photo book of winners of the Asahi Housing Plan Competition]. Volume 1 and 2 (complete)

by Tonedachi, Masao

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Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1929-1930 (Showa 4 and 5). Large octavos (29 × 19.6 cm). Publisher's cloth-backed boards with vignette to front board and gilt titles to spine; 381 and 115, 18, [1] pp. The first volume with 350 pp. of plans and drawings, a few in color; the second volume In the original card slipcases with decorative title label affixed to panels. Light wear and scuffing to slipcases; very minor foxing to boards and endpapers; else about very good. Asahi Shimbun is one of the five national newspapers in Japan, and one of the nation's oldest and largest national daily newspapers, which began publication in Osaka in 1879. The newspaper held this competition for small and mid-size houses and villages in 1929, and the submissions ranged widely from distinctly modern and progressive to more traditionally inflected designs. One of the projects was by Kiyoshi Kikkawa, who collaborated on the Aoikan cinema in 1924 with Tomoyoshi Murayama (Tokyo). The competition was also not purely an academic exercise; sixteen exhibition homes were quickly built from the submissions. The second volume illustrates the homes that were chosen and built, most of which are bungalows with modernist touches, including the seemingly ubiquitous inclusion of portholes in most of the designs, but some have a more Bauhaus aesthetic. The houses are documented in great detail, with shots from a variety of angles. Today Asahi Jutaku (Asahi Housing) appears to be a vast network of real estate and building.

As of March 2023, KVK, OCLC show two holdings outside of Japan.

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Asahi jūtaku zuanshū: Kenshō chūshō jūtaku 85an [Asahi housing designs: small and medium size housing competition, 85 plans]. WITH: Asahi jūtaku shashinshū [Photo book of winners of the Asahi Housing Plan Competition]. Volume 1 and 2 (complete)
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Tonedachi, Masao
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japan, japanese, asia, asian, russia, russian, soviet, ussr, poster, plakat, design, graphic design, sssr, film, cinema, modernism, modernist, avantgarde, avant-garde, constructivism, constructivist, cinema, film, movie, theatre, theater, performance
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