Yoshiji Takehara set up his own practice Moo Architect Workshop in 1978 after apprenticing under Osamu Ishii. He has focused on designing houses and ...
Just as we use language to parse reality to make it more easily apprehensible, we employ boundaries-parsings of space- and conventional signs in order ...
Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricate carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat'each element of traditional Japanese architecture ...
This book on the Pritzker Prizewinning architect Tadao Ando explores his recent work, which embodies principles of sustainability, site sensitivity, and craftsmanship. Entirely self-educated, ...
Japanese residential design has evolved as a distinctive response to social, political, and climatic pressures'along with the powerful individual ideas of its architects. Japan ...
Une sélection de réalisations contemporaines (1951-2005) les plus marquantes qui font la singularité architecturale du Japon, entre modernisme international et permanence de l'inspiration orientale.
This is the first book on a painter who expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques that are unique to Japan. Hiroshi Senjus art ...
Authors Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon present eighty-three buildings, from world-renowned projects such as Herzog & de Meuron's Prada building and FOA's spectacular ...
In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the ...
What is the relationship between a specific physical environment, whether architectural, urban or natural, and how the occupants use, experience, develop and maintain a ...
Il volume è stato pensato come un'occasione per introdurre i lettori alle ricerche formali che accompagnano la produzione architettonica contemporanea in Giappone. Il taglio ...
Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book focuses on the Metabolists' utopian concept of ...
Japanese Identities takes readers on a journey to the most magnificent buildings of Japan, erected anywhere from the seventh century AD to the present. ...
Il volume documenta le più significative chashitsu e, quando presenti, i roji che le completano. Si tratta delle tradizionali case e giardini per la ...
Over 150 full-color photographs introduce Japans most beautiful garden masterworks. Designed for viewing, meditation, strolling, and tea practice, the seventy-five gardens here include some ...
Tadao Ando è uno dei massimi maestri dellarchitettura giapponese e internazionale che negli ultimi decenni ha fatto del progetto museale una straordinaria palestra di ...
In Pursuit of Universalism is the first comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. In this groundbreaking work, which is also the ...