Maekawa Kunio And The Emergence Of Japanese Modernist Architecture

Author : Jonathan M. Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520921410

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Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture by Jonathan M. Reynolds Pdf

Japanese architecture's commanding presence on the world stage can be traced to the struggles of earlier generations of Japan's modernist architects. This first book-length study of Maekawa Kunio (1905-1986) focuses on one of the most distinctive leaders in Japan's modernist architectural community. In a career spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, Maekawa's work and critical writing put him in the vanguard of the Japanese architectural profession. Jonathan Reynolds illuminates Maekawa's role as a bridge between prewar and postwar architecture in Japan, focusing particularly on how he influenced modernism's ambivalence regarding "tradition" and contemporary practice and the importance of technology in modernist design and ideology. Maekawa studied architecture at the prestigious Tokyo Imperial University before moving to Paris in 1928 to work with Le Corbusier. The latter experience had a powerful impact on Maekawa; he became an advocate for Le Corbusier and modernism when he returned to Japan two years later. Throughout his career Maekawa designed residential, commercial, and government buildings in Japan and abroad. He became particularly well known internationally for his approach to public architecture, especially museums and public spaces such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall. These projects illustrated the principles that earned Maekawa the respect and admiration of architects the world over. Carefully researched, with numerous illustrations that complement discussions of Maekawa's principal projects, Reynolds's book will be welcomed in the fields of architecture and design. It will also attract readers interested in twentieth-century Japan, for in addition to highlighting Maekawa's architectural career, Reynolds portrays the broader cultural context within which Maekawa and other Japanese architects and artists sought to be heard and recognized.

Author : Jonathan McKean Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520214951

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Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture by Jonathan McKean Reynolds Pdf

Through careful archival research, Reynolds places the life and architectural career of Maekawa Kunio (1905-1986) in larger social and professional contexts in Japan.

Author : 前川國男
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architects
ISBN : UVA:X002156110

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前川國男 by 前川國男 Pdf

Author : Susanne Kohte,Hubertus Adam,Daniel Hubert
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035607154

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Encounters and Positions by Susanne Kohte,Hubertus Adam,Daniel Hubert Pdf

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 : James Philip Noffsinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031513729

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Kunio Maekawa, Father of Modern Japanese Architecture by James Philip Noffsinger Pdf

Author : Ken Tadashi Ōshima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215289542

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International Architecture in Interwar Japan by Ken Tadashi Ōshima Pdf

Following World War I, a generation of young architects in Japan took part in a movement toward "international architecture," or kokusai kenchiku, designing houses for people who blended Japanese and Western customs in their daily lives, and public buildings--from schools and hospitals to weather stations and golf clubhouses--that encompassed modern forms and new materials, especially earthquake-resistant reinforced concrete, yet systhesized the new with the old.--Ken Tadashi Oshima is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780500775929

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Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of globalization and the phenomenon of international celebrity architects, this book is the definitive history of modern architecture. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition of Modern Architecture, Frampton added new chapters exploring the ongoing modernist tradition in architecture while also examining the varied responses to the urgent need to build more sustainably and create structures that will withstand changing climates. This new edition features completely redesigned interiors and an updated and expanded bibliography, making this volume more indispensable than ever.

Author : Marianne Ibler
Publisher : Aalborg University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015059122724

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Modern Japanese Architecture by Marianne Ibler Pdf

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 : Tets Kimura,Jennifer Harris
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782846581

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Exporting Japanese Aesthetics by Tets Kimura,Jennifer Harris Pdf

Exporting Japanese Aesthetics brings together historical and contemporary case studies addressing the evolution of international impacts and influences of Japanese culture and aesthetics. The volume draws on a wide range of examples from a multidisciplinary team of scholars exploring transnational, regional and global contexts. Studies include the impact of traditional Japanese theatre and art through to the global popularity of contemporary anime and manga. Under the banner of soft power or Cool Japan, cultural commodities that originate in Japan have manifested new meanings outside Japan. By (re)mapping meanings of selected Japanese cultural forms, this volume offers an in-depth examination of how various aspects of Japanese aesthetics have evolved as exportable commodities, the motivations behind this diffusion, and the extent to which the process of diffusion has been the result of strategic planning. Each chapter presents a case study that explores perspectives that situate Japanese aesthetics within a wide-ranging field of inquiry including performance, tourism, and visual arts, as well as providing historical contexts. The importance of interrogating the export of Japanese aesthetics is validated at the highest levels of government, which formed the Office of Cool Japan in 2010, and which perhaps originated in the 19th century at governmentally endorsed cultural courts at world fairs. Increased international consumption of contemporary Japanese culture provides a much needed boost to Japans weakening economy. The case studies are timely and topical. As host of the 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2025 Osaka Expo, Cool Japan will be under special scrutiny.

Author : David B. Stewart
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017739619

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The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture by David B. Stewart Pdf

This text explores the rise of modern architecture in Japan since 1868 and the interaction between tradition and innovation, East and West.

Author : Ari Seligmann
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785002496

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Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 by Ari Seligmann Pdf

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 : Rika Devos,Alexander Ortenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317179115

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Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 by Rika Devos,Alexander Ortenberg Pdf

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank. The famous standoffs between the Stalinist Russia and the Nazi Germany in Paris 1937, or the juxtaposition of the USSR and USA pavilions in Brussels 1958, are examples of very explicit shows of force. The book also discusses some less known - and more subtle - messages, revealed through an examination of several additional pavilions in both Paris and Brussels; of a series of expositions in Moscow; of the Universal Exhibition in Rome that was planned to open in 1942; and of London’s South Bank Exposition of 1951: all of them related, in one way or another, to either an anticipation of the global war or to its horrific aftermaths. A brief discussion of three pre-World War II American expositions that are reviewed in the Epilogue supports this point. It indicates a significant difference in the attitude of American exposition commissioners, who were less attuned to the looming war than their European counterparts. The book provides a novel assessment of modern architecture’s involvement with national representation. Whether in the service of Fascist Italy or of Imperial Japan, of Republican Spain or of the post-war Franquista regime, of the French Popular Front or of socialist Yugoslavia, of the arising FRG or of capitalist USA, of Stalinist Russia or of post-colonial Britain, exposition architecture during the period in question was driven by a deep faith in its ability to represent ideology. The book argues that this widespread confidence in architecture’s ability to act as a propaganda tool was one of the reasons why Modernist architecture lent itself to the service of such different masters.

Author : D.J. Huppatz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781474296861

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Modern Asian Design by D.J. Huppatz Pdf

Modern Asian Design provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Asian design in the modern period, both tracing historical threads and offering a theoretical framework within which to chart the history of design in Asia. Rather than a singular “Asian history”, this book presents a series of studies centred on trade routes, colonial relationships, regional networks and cross-cultural exchanges. Modern Asian Design builds on existing resources beyond design history in an effort to map the field, focusing particularly on relations between Asia and the West and also across Asian design cultures. Opening with a brief overview of trade and exchange networks in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bulk of this study comprises analysis of the development of modern design in Asia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, a period of rapid modernisation. The book's final two chapters bring these central ideas into a contemporary and highly relevant context.

Author : Kurt Helfrich,William Whitaker
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568985835

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Crafting a Modern World by Kurt Helfrich,William Whitaker Pdf

"Crafting a Modern World examines a missing chapter in the history of mid-century modernism: the story of husband and wife design team Antonin and Noemi Raymond. This is the first comprehensive book in English on the duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mark Clapson,Peter J. Larkham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1409436985

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The Blitz and Its Legacy by Mark Clapson,Peter J. Larkham Pdf

The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction.