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 ...
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 dell'architettura 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 ...
Scelto da François Pinault, imprenditore e magnate francese, per realizzare il centro d'arte contemporanea Punta della Dogana, Tadao Ando continua, con il restauro della ...
Japanese gardens have long been admired for their capacity to improve on nature through impeccable design, detail and composition, properties that elevate them from ...
A. L. SadlerÆs invaluable study of Japanese architecture first appeared in 1941. Considered a classic in its field, unequaled in clarity and insight, Japanese ...
Japanese stone gardens provide tranquil settings where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and ...
The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and in Western architecture. This book begins with both contexts: it ...