| Description |
xviii, 318 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Architectural Profession in Japan, 1850-1930 -- 2. Family and Education -- 3. A Modernist Crusader, 1930-1945 -- 4. "People's Architecture" in Postwar Japan -- 5. "Tradition" Redux -- 6. Recasting Modernism -- 7. Conclusion |
| Summary |
"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. Maekawa's work and critical writing, produced during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1980s, put him at the vanguard of the Japanese architectural profession. Jonathan Reynolds shows how Maekawa negotiated the transition in Japan between prewar and postwar architecture and how his work, which explored modernism's ambivalence about the relation between "tradition" and contemporary practice, also exploited the new technology and building materials, incorporating them into modernist design and ideology."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index |
| Subject |
Maekawa, Kunio -- Influence.
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Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 1868-
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Modern movement (Architecture) -- Japan.
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| LC no. |
00037406 |
| ISBN |
0520214951 cloth alkaline paper |
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