Makis treatment of his two overarching themes--the contemporary cityand modernist architecture--demonstrates strong {and sometimesunexpected} linkages between urban theory and architectural practice.After writing about his first encounters with modern architecture andwith CIAM and Team X, Maki describes his studies of "Collective Form,"the relationship between cities and their individual buildings. Hisinfluential essay "The Japanese City and Inner Space" tracescharacteristics of the Japanese city from the Edo period tocontemporary Tokyo; his consideration of Japanese modernism begins witha discussion of "the Le Corbusier syndrome" in modern Japanesearchitecture. Images and commentary on three of Makis own worksdemonstrate the connection between his writing and his designs. Movingthrough the successive waves of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism,and other isms, these essays reflect how several generations ofarchitectural thought and expression have been resolved within onecareer.
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