The Art Of Japanese Architecture

Author : David Young,Michiko Young
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781462906574

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The Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book begins with a discussion of early prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of works by important modern Japanese architects. Along the way it discusses the iconic buildings and architectural styles for which Japan is so justly famous--from elegant Shinden and Sukiya aristocratic villas like the Kinkakuji "Golden Pavilion" in Kyoto, to imposing Samurai castles like Himeji and Matsumoto, and tranquil Zen Buddhist gardens and tea houses to rural Minka thatched-roof farmhouses and Shinto shrines. Each period in the development of Japan's architecture is described in detail and the most important structures are shown and discussed--including dozens of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The aesthetic trends in each period are presented within the context of Japanese society at the time, providing a unique in-depth understanding of the way Japanese architectural styles and buildings have developed over time and the great variety that is visible today. The book is profusely illustrated with hundreds of hand-drawn 3D watercolor illustrations and color photos as well as prints, maps and diagrams. The new edition features dozens of new photographs and a handy hardcover format that is perfect for travelers.

Author : David Young,Michiko Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 4805315040

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The Art of Japanese Architecture by David Young,Michiko Young Pdf

The Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book begins with a discussion of early prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of works by important modern Japanese architects. Along the way it discusses the iconic buildings and architectural styles for which Japan is so justly famous--from elegant Shinden and Sukiya aristocratic villas like the Kinkakuji "Golden Pavilion" in Kyoto, to imposing Samurai castles like Himeji and Matsumoto, and tranquil Zen Buddhist gardens and tea houses to rural Minka thatched-roof farmhouses and Shinto shrines. Each period in the development of Japan's architecture is described in detail and the most important structures are shown and discussed--including dozens of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The aesthetic trends in each period are presented within the context of Japanese society at the time, providing a unique in-depth understanding of the way Japanese architectural styles and buildings have developed over time and the great variety that is visible today. The book is profusely illustrated with hundreds of hand-drawn 3D watercolor illustrations and color photos as well as prints, maps and diagrams. The new edition features dozens of new photographs and a handy hardcover format that is perfect for travelers.

Author : Christopher Dresser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136886898

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Japan by Christopher Dresser Pdf

First Published in 2001. As an architect and ornamentist by profession, the author of this volume has specialist knowledge of many manufacturing processes and presents his observations on architectural edifices and Japanese art. Includes photos and commissioned drawings.

Author : Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462900800

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Impressions of Japanese Architecture by Ralph Adams Cram Pdf

"The best book on Japanese architecture ever produced by a Westerner." —The American Architect Japanese architecture is undoubtedly less well known and less appreciated than the architecture of any other civilized nation. Not only this, but it is almost universally misjudged, and while the world has by degrees come to know and admire the pictorial and industrial arts of Japan, her architecture, which is the rot and vehicle of all other modes of art, is passed over with a casual reference to its fantastic quality or a patronizing tribute to the excellence of some of its carved decoration. Written at a time when Japanese art was only beginning to be appreciated in the West, Impressions of Japanese Architecture conveys a sense of discovery and enthusiasm that modern readers will find as interesting and infectious as the book's first readers did. Long considered a classic, this new edition contains a foreword by acclaimed contemporary architect and author, Mira Locher. Originally published about one hundred years ago, Impressions of Japanese Architecture is still of immense value to anyone wishing for a better understanding of Japanese architecture, art and culture.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Arthur Drexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Architectural drawing
ISBN : UOM:39015006731908

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The Architecture of Japan by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Arthur Drexler Pdf

Author : Kevin Nute
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0415232694

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Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan by Kevin Nute Pdf

Looks at Wright's formal and philosophical debt to Japanese art and architecture. Eight areas of influence are examined in detail, from Japanese prints to specific individuals and publications, and are illustrated with text and drawn analyses.

Author : Robert Treat Paine,Alexander Coburn Soper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300053339

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The Art and Architecture of Japan by Robert Treat Paine,Alexander Coburn Soper Pdf

Once slighted as mere copying from China, the arts of Japan are now seen as a unique alternation of advances and withdrawals. At times the islanders produced Chinese-style works of great beauty, unmatched on the continent. When they chose to be independent, their art differs at every level. Sculpture, and even more painting, are concrete, sensuous, and emotional, speaking directly to all.

Author : Kevin Nute
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0419240101

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Place, Time, and Being in Japanese Architecture by Kevin Nute Pdf

"In addition to highlighting the human benefits of built environments which relate to particular place, time and being, many of the Japanese buildings examined illustrate practical strategies for revealing these universal parameters which are equally applicable beyond Japan. It is suggested that wider use of some of these approaches could not only help to sustain both environmental and cultural identities against the homogenising effects of globalisation, but also has the potential to heighten our appreciation of the peculiar condition of being here now."--Jacket.

Author : Dana Buntrock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134725014

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Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture by Dana Buntrock Pdf

In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects – Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki – Buntrock reveals the aims influencing many wonderful works barely known in the West; the sensual side of Japanese architecture borne out of approaches often less concerned with professionalism than with people and place. The buildings described in this book illustrate an architecture that embraces uniqueness, expressing unusual stories in the rough outlines of rammed earth and rust, and demonstrating new paths opening up for architectural practice today. For some, these examples will offer new insight into expressions of tradition in Japanese architecture; for others, this book offers inspiration for their own efforts to assert the unique heritage of other regions around the world. Compelling, insightful and groundbreaking, this book is essential for everyone studying Japanese architecture and anyone trying to invoke narrative and tradition in contemporary design.

Author : Patricia Graham
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781462916092

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Japanese Design by Patricia Graham Pdf

**Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015** This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary . The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a contemporary work of art. This allure has come to permeate the entire culture of Japan—it is manifest in the most mundane utensil and snack food packaging, as well as in Japanese architecture and fine art. In Japanese Design, Asian art expert and author Patricia J. Graham explains how Japanese aesthetics based on fine craftsmanship and simplicity developed. Her unusual, full-color presentation reveals this design aesthetic in an absorbing way. Focusing on ten elements of Japanese design, Graham explores how visual qualities, the cultural parameters and the Japanese religious traditions of Buddhism and Shinto have impacted the appearance of its arts. Japanese Design is a handbook for the millions of us who have felt the special allure of Japanese art, culture and crafts. Art and design fans and professionals have been clamoring for this—a book that fills the need for an intelligent, culture-rich overview of what Japanese design is and means. Topics explored in Japanese Design include: The Aesthetics of Japanese Design The Cultural Parameters of Japanese Design Early Promoters of "Artistic Japan" 1830s-1950s

Author : Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230369015

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Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts by Ralph Adams Cram Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X THE FUTURE OF JAPANESE ART WITH the close of the nineteenth century art as a vital thing, a racial attribute, came to its end in Japan. For thirteen hundred years it had been an essential part of a varied but unbroken civilization. All true art, all art, that is, which is more than sporadic and episodical, is a component part of the culture of a race. It cannot be created, it is doubtful even if it may be fostered, consciously at any rate. It is a sign of wholesome life, of the acceptance of high ideals, and of an honest effort, whether successful or not, at putting them into practise. It has never existed without religion of some sort as its supreme impulse and its ultimate goal. The art of Japan, like the art of Hellenism and of Medieval Christianity, was the natural and inevitable expression of this plexus of conditions and tendencies. It was onq of the first fruits of the Buddhist mission of the sixth century, and as that mission within two hundlrecT years fixed a permanent type of lofty civilization in Japan, so did art follow step by step. For another thousand years this civilization continued through-many vicissitudes, th'ough never lapsing into, or even tending towards, barbarism. The art history was identical, the modes of its manifestation were various: now architecture, now painting, then literature, sculpture, the drama, or again the industrial arts. Note, however, that nothing intrinsically bad was ever done, all was good, better, or best. The religious inspiration of Buddhism and the overmastering loyalty of Shinto fixed a type of character, chivalrous, honourable, self-sacrificing, that has persisted without visible weakening or failure until this day. The same impulses, or the racial character they created, ...

Author : Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000012186860

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Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts by Ralph Adams Cram Pdf

Author : Geeta Mehta,Kimie Tada
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462905959

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Japan Style by Geeta Mehta,Kimie Tada Pdf

Enter the world of the stylish Japanese house, where every object in sight is a work of art. Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases Japanese design in the stunning beauty of old homes and reveals how they are cared for by their owners. Traditional Japanese homes, with superbly crafted fine wood, great workmanship and seasonal interior arrangements, have an aesthetic of infinite simplicity. Unlike Japanese inns and historical buildings, the Japanese architecture featured in this book is on private property not open to public viewing. Japan Style offers a rare glimpse into the intimate world of everyday Japanese culture and fascinating insight into the traditional architecture of Japan.

Author : Robert Treat Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758166052

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The Art and Architecture of Japan by Robert Treat Paine Pdf

Author : Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1334228868

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Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts (Classic Reprint) by Ralph Adams Cram Pdf

Excerpt from Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts First time. For the privilege of reprinting these five chapters, the acknowledgments of the author are due to the editors of the Architectural Review (boston), The Church man (new York), The Architectural Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.