Naomi Pollock Surveys Lost Postwar Structures in ‘Vanishing Japan’

Vanishing Japan: Modern Architecture, Gone But Not Forgotten , by Naomi Pollock. Image courtesy the publisher; click to enlarge Between the 1950s and the 1990s, Japan constructed a tremendous number of large-scale buildings: city halls and civic centers; theaters, and museums; gymnasiums and schools; hotels and department stores. the relationship between the buildings and the street disappeared,” lamented the architect.