ABSTRACT
The built environment in Japan has continuously oscillated between visionary aspirations and constructed realities. This dynamism has resulted in constantly changing diverse expressions of contemporary form shaped by global-local technological developments in modern building and the tremendous forces of political, economic and social change of the second half of the twentieth centuryfrom the rise of the “economic miracle” with a skyrocketing GNP and population to the realities of “post-economic bubble” period.
