Japan-ness In Architecture
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One of Japan's leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural history from the seventh to the twentieth century; essays on buildings and their cultural context.
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki sees buildings not as dead objects but as events that encompass the social and historical context--not to be defined forever by their everlasting materiality but as texts to be interpreted and reread continually. In Japan-ness in Architecture, he identifies what is essentially Japanese in architecture from the seventh to the twentieth century.
- Paperback | 376 pages
- 152 x 229 x 17mm | 635g
- 25 Feb 2011
- MIT Press Ltd
- MIT Press
- Cambridge, United States
- English
- 54 illus.; 54 Illustrations, unspecified
- 0262516055
- 9780262516051
