This is one wonderful reference book for everyone interested in Japanese. If you are an architectural students or profession, you must get this book for your home library. It's a good investment. This is a good guide to Japanse architecture. It contains many illustrations, and is a detailed description on types of modern Japanese architecture to create imaginative spaces for contemporary society.

A very... heavy and bulky book. On contrary to its size and many colourful pictures, Taniguchi's architecture represents the typical modern/minimalist architecture with not much of inspiring insight. It therefore is understanble why there are a lot people wanted to sell it on the web.