Book List

Here is a list of Architecture and Design books that are interesting and might be an inspiration.
More will follow after reading and understanding them.

現代建築家コンセプトシリーズ　１

藤本壮介：原初的な未来の建築

Contemporary Architect's Concept Series 1

Sou Fujimoto: Primitive Future

ISBN978-4-86480-306-9 C0352

 This portfolio like book gives us an insight in Fujimoto's way of how he creates architecture. Through images, diagrams and short text lines he explains his idea called "Primitive Future".

This was the first book I read about Fujimoto's work and I found it a little hard to understand everything since I was not yet familiar with his work.

藤本壮介　読本

Sou Fujimoto

ISBN978-4-87140-674-1

In this interview, all of Fujimoto's work is shown in chronological order from 1995 to 2011. Each project is described and explained in detail with photo's and drawings. Since it is written in spoken japanese, it is also easy to read. Recommended for those who are not very familiar with his work.
GA Gallery is located in Tokyo and has a lot of expositions about designs of world known architects. It also publishes good books about architecture and design and their small store has a great collection.

紙で作る１/１００の世界

テラダ　モケイ

How to enjoy paper model of 1/100 scale

Terada Mokei

ISBN978-4-7661-2290-9 C2070

Originally started as 1/100 scale model products for architecture, the miniature figures became so popular among the mainstream customers that it has grown into all sorts of objects with which a all kinds of scenes and stages can be set up for fun. This book gives a short explanation on how to bend the paper figures and what kind of settings you can make. A sample of ready to use figures comes with it. 

Scanning the figures and objects in the book, tracing them in CAD and than laser cutting them out would give a great variety in colours and sizes when building my own scale models.