Nurturing dreams : collected essays on architecture and the city / Fumihiko Maki ; edited by Mark Mulligan ; foreword by Eduard Sekler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-269) and index.

Formative years -- Collective form: a preface -- Investigations in collective form -- Time and landscape: collective form at Hillside Terrace -- City and modernism -- My city: the acquisition of mental landscapes -- America: highways, detached houses, and skyscrapers -- The drawing called Brasília -- Notes on urban space -- Space, territory, and perception -- Reflections on Harvard's 1956 urban design conference -- The Japanese city and inner space -- The Kaze-no-Oka crematorium -- The Le Corbusier syndrome: on the development of modern architecture in Japan -- Making architecture in Japan -- Togo Murano -- Stillness and plenitude: the architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi -- On the industrial vernacular -- The roof at Fujisawa -- On universality -- Architectural modernity and the consciousness called the present.

"Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history."--Jacket.