Japan in der DDR – Meine Begegnung mit drei japanischen Häusern in Ostdeutschland
Tamami Iinuma
Weight | 500 g |
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Dimensions | 257 × 182 mm |
Cover | softcover |
binding | perfect bound |
printing | digital printing |
coverage | 180 pages |
Design by | designed by Yuto Takamuro (ca o studio) |
language | Japanese / German |
ISBN | ISBN 978-4-86541-204-8 |
Publisher | published by Akaaka Art Publishing, inc. |
year | 2025 |
Weight: 500g
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From the authors foreword: “Japan in the GDR – My Encounter with Three Japanese Hotels in East Germany” is a project that began with my encounter with the still-existing “Interhotel Merkur (now the Westin)” building in Leipzig (…). Soon after this encounter (…) I learned that this was the first project of the Japanese company Kajima Corporation in Europe, a building that was one of four major turnkey projects. The other three are the “International Trade Center Berlin”, the “Interhotel Bellevue Dresden”, and the “Grandhotel Berlin”. (…) Of these four, I decided to focus my attention on hotels. The reason for this was my interest in hotels as theatrical spaces, often used as settings for films or novels. I also felt a strong attraction to the fact that in various sources on the Merkur, the word “hotel” was often replaced with “house”, as I had been interested in the poetics of the “house” for some time.