This text explores the rise of modern architecture in Japan since 1868 and the interaction between tradition and innovation, East and West.
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With its hundreds of plates and its reliance on primary sources, this sophisticated study defines what is essentially Japanese about modern Japanese architecture. Late 19th century Meiji banks and schools, reeking ornate orderliness, might have been at home in Victorian England. But Frank Lloyd Wright's rebuilding of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo presaged an influx of modernism. In the 1930s, the Imperial Crown style, a resuscitative orientalism, expressionism and rationalism all vied with one another. By the late '30s, the International Style had largely played itself out. Architects such as Kenzo Tange, Arata Isozaki and Kazuo Shinohara sought new ways to synthesize Japanese and Western elements. The challenge of designing small private dwellings and the Japanese concept of architectural space as a void that filters a building's environs receive special attention. Stewart also shows how Westerners like Wright and Le Corbusier borrowed from and, in turn, influenced Japanese design. Stewart teaches at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
David B. Stewart was born in Washington, D.C., and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania and London. He has taught in Japan as Visiting Foreign Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology since 1975. Before that, he was a member of the editorial staff of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, in Paris, and has also worked as archivist for an international agency with headquarters in Paris and Washington. He was trained as an architectural historian at the Courtauld Institute of the University of London by the late Professor Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, under whose supervision he earned his Ph.D.
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This book doesn't mention every Japanese architecture that one would normally associate. It gives an extremely unique and highly critical and selective account of modern Japanese architecture history particularly based on the powerful architecture of Antonin Raymond, Kazuo Shinohara and Arata Isozaki. From the author's tribute to these selected architects and architecture, the reader would be able to receive a new insight and broader yet more focus understanding of contemporary Japanesearchitecture. Original classic photographs
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