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"Searching for the Language of Architecture: Architectural Photography by Koji Taki" is a collection of works by Japanese critic and photographer Koji Taki (1928-2011). In 1968, Taki co-founded the legendary photography magazine "PROVOKE" with Takuma Nakahira and others, and together with Yutaka Takanashi, Takahiko Okada, and later Daido Moriyama, he fundamentally questioned the relationship between established photographic expression and language, making him an important figure in the history of Japanese photography. This book is a compilation of residential architecture photographed by Taki from 1968 to 1979, the period when "PROVOKE" was launched, and was researched and edited by photographer and artist Tamami Iinuma. It includes 17 houses, primarily by Kazuo Shinohara, but also by Kazunari Sakamoto, Toyo Ito, Hiroki Shirasawa, and others. The book includes 124 images from original prints and films, based on approximately 12,000 images entrusted to each architect by Taki during his lifetime, with more than half of them being published for the first time. Furthermore, by showing the shooting locations and camera directions on the floor plan, the book reveals not only the architecture itself, but also how Taki walked through the space, observed it, and transformed it into photographs. This is an important book that allows us to rediscover how the relationship between "seeing" and "thinking," which was explored in "PROVOKE," has been extended to the subject of architecture. Second printing.