Japanese Modern Architecture 1920 2015

Author : Ari Seligmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785002489
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 written by Ari Seligmann and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing a series of thematic lenses, this book explains the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. It introduces the diversity of Japanese architecture and traces the evolution of Japanese architecture in the context of domestic and international developments. It also examines the relationship between architecture and nature, and explores various approaches to craft and material. Finally, this book considers tensions between refinement and ostentation in architectural expression.

Author : Ari Seligmann
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 178500249X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 written by Ari Seligmann and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. The book introduces the diversity of Japanese architecture and traces the evolution of Japanese architecture in the context of domestic and international developments. It examines the relationship between architecture and nature, and explores various approaches to craft and material. Finally, this new book considers tensions between refinement and ostentation in architectural expression. Of interest to students of architecture, and anyone with an interest in Japanese post-war culture and superbly illustrated with 95 colour images.

Author : David B. Stewart
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture written by David B. Stewart and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the rise of modern architecture in Japan since 1868 and the interaction between tradition and innovation, East and West.

Author : Marianne Ibler
Publisher : Aalborg University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Japanese Architecture written by Marianne Ibler and published by Aalborg University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the architecture of Japanese architects Kenzo Tange, Junzo Sakakura, Kiyonori Kikutake and Kunio Maekawa, leading exponents of the 'New Japanese School' in architecture in the middle of the 20th century.

Author : Geeta Mehta
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462908500
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Japan Architecture written by Geeta Mehta and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors. The past five years are widely consider to have been the most innovative period in contemporary Japanese design history. The projects featured in New Japan Architecture were completed during this extraordinarily fertile time. Featuring breathtaking images of modern Japan, this volume presents forty-eight extraordinary projects by forty-two of the world's leading architects, including: Hitoshi Abe Ward Kishi Tadao Ando Chiba Manabu Architects Toyo Ito Kengo Kuma Kazuyo Sejima This architecture book features a wide-range of buildings, some exhibiting the ultimate ideal of the white Zen cube, while others exemplify the search for the new wow factor in iconic design. In many, cutting-edge modernity is counterbalanced by a concern for sustainability—an issue that has motivated many architects to rethink and reintroduce concepts drawn from traditional Japanese architecture. Projects big and small, private and public, residential and commercial are included. Insightful text by two leading experts in the field of Japanese architecture highlights the remarkable aspects of each building and places these developments within the wider context of world architecture. Offering an essential overview of current trends, New Japan Architecture points the way to modern architecture's future.

Author : Kevin Nute
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429751354
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind written by Kevin Nute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers. The book traces three recurring themes in Western accounts of Japanese architecture from the reopening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: a wish to see Western architectural theories reflected in Japanese buildings; efforts to integrate elements of Japanese architecture into Western buildings; and a desire to connect contemporary Japanese architecture with Japanese tradition. It is suggested that, together, these narratives have had the effect of creating what amounts to a mythical version of Japanese architecture, often at odds with historical fact, but which has exercised a powerful influence on the development of building design internationally.

Author : David B. Stewart
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture written by David B. Stewart and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive history of the rise and evolution of modernism inapanese architecture. Illustrated with over 400 photographs, the studyxplores the influence of 20th-century Western architectural ideas on theevelopment of Japan's urban landscapes.

Author : Yuka Yokoyama
Publisher : August Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781947359093
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncrating the Japanese House: Junzo Yoshimura, Antonin and Noémi Raymond, and George Nakashima written by Yuka Yokoyama and published by August Editions. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midcentury modernism meets Japanese design in three revolutionary American buildings--the products of a unique, sustained, cross-cultural collaboration In 1953, Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura designed a now-classic Japanese house and garden that he called Shofuso. It was built in Nagoya, Japan, and shipped to New York in 1954, where it was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and then relocated to Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The curators of MoMA's House in the Garden exhibition highlighted its synthesis of historic Japanese architecture with modern architecture: the clarity of the house's post and beam structure, its flexibility of use and the close relationship of indoor and outdoor spaces. This extensively illustrated volume centers on Yoshimura's design for Shofuso and two allied sites located in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Raymond Farm (1939-41), a live-work residence built by Antonin and Noémi Raymond within the fabric of an existing 18th-century Quaker farmhouse; and Nakashima Studios, a complex of structures designed by George Nakashima over three decades (1947-77) to serve his furniture-making business and as his family's home. Each site, in its own way, is the embodiment of the personal relationships and cross-cultural collaborations among this group of architects and designers. The Raymonds, along with Yoshimura, Nakashima and others, came to understand Japan's changing environment through the act of building, through collaboration and travel. Together, they extended these lessons into the furniture and furnishings of modern living in both Japan and the United States. This volume documents an exhibition of objects and ephemera mounted at Shofuso. New York-based architectural photographer Elizabeth Felicella captures each site in a portfolio of newly commissioned images. Essays by Ken Tadashi Oshima and William Whitaker, illustrated with historical photographs, family snapshots and architectural drawings, further elucidate this important chapter in the history of modern architecture and design.

Author : Susanne Kohte
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 303560715X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters and Positions written by Susanne Kohte and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making cross-references to Japan’s architectural history, and explaining current lines of development. The book thus combines a self-reflective approach with an outsider’s analytical view.

Author : Noboru Kawazoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Japanese Architecture written by Noboru Kawazoe and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: