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House Us
How have our lifestyles changed in recent years that might demand new forms of living? Do we adapt to our architecture, or does it adapt to us? In this publication, 20 young and upcoming designers from around the world present speculative projects on housing with commentary and external reviews.
Next Home Seoul
Home/Housing as a manifestation of lifestyles is a critical forum for us to gauge the way we render our living within the urban sphere. NEXT HOME examines this 'living' as an architectural assignment, beyond and before the traces of commercial and personal paraphernalia. Living as an urban interiority, and home/housing as a node within the interiority, NEXT HOME 2017 invites architectural projections on 'living nodes' within Seoul's tomorrow. The call-to-participate will focused on dispersed or assembled forms of mass-housing and/or collective-housing, with its unit-space at approximately 50 square meters (15 pyong or 500 square feet). The invitees were asked to extend their existing and/or ...
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Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine
The remarkable true story of a lone genius whose quest to unlock the science behind the perfect swing changed golf forever In 1939, Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116. Frustrated, he did not play again for six months; when he did he carded a 77. Determined to understand why he was able to shave nearly 40 strokes off his score, Kelley spent three decades of trial and error to unlock the answer and to recapture that one wonderful day when golf was easy and enjoyable. In 1969, Kelley self- published his findings in The Golfing Machine: The Computer Age Approach to Golfing Perfection. The bestselling instruction books of the day required golfers to conform their swings to...
Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Open Access
This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offer hidden insights and new perspectives on the Games. These include city planning, cultural politics, financial issues, language use, security, education, volunteerism, and construction work. The chapters then go on to explore the many stakeholders, institutions, citizens, interest groups, and protest groups involved, and feature the struggle over Tokyo’s extreme summer heat, food standards, the implementation of diversity around disabilities, sexual minorities, and technological innovations. Giving short glimpses into the new Olympic sports, this book also analyses the role of these sports in Japanese society. Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics will be of huge interest to anyone attending the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. It will also be useful to students and scholars of the Olympics and the sociology of sport, as well as Japanese culture and society.
