Publisher/平凡社

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"Architectural Apocalypse," a photobook by Japanese photographer Ryuji Miyamoto. Ryuji Miyamoto is a leading Japanese architectural photographer renowned for his photographs of ruins. During his time at Tama Art University, he participated in the "Artistic Struggle Committee" alongside Hiroya Hori and Miyako Ishiuchi, which explored avant-garde artistic expression on the themes of politics and art amidst the student protests. After working as an editor for an architectural magazine, he became an independent photographer in the late 1970s, and since then has captured the ruins and demolition processes of historical buildings in Japan and around the world, producing many meaningful works that evoke memories of history and time that are being forgotten in contrast to the economic development of cities and civilization. This series was compiled into the 1988 photobook "Architectural Apocalypse," which won the 14th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, but this book is a revised and updated version, featuring new prints and re-editing by Miyamoto himself, and includes text by Arata Isozaki, just like the original.