The constructed other : Japanese architecture in the Western mind
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The constructed other : Japanese architecture in the Western mind
Routledge, 2021
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [110]-118) and index
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Description
Demonstrates how generations of Western designers have recognized in Japanese art and architecture essentially what they wanted to see, in order to advance their own theoretical agendas
Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings and a colour plate
Includes discussion of the work of Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Gunter Nitschke and Heinrich Engel, Mies van der Rohe, Antonin Raymond, Frank Lloyd Wright to name but a few
Table of Contents
Foreword by Kengo Kuma Preface A built chimera 1. Three types of otherness 2. The self in the other 3. The other in the self 4. The other in the other 5. The lens of myth Image credits Bibliography Index
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