Title The making of a modern Japanese architecture : 1868 to the present / David B. Stewart

Edition First edition Published Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, [1987] ©1987

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Description 304 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm Contents The Victorian foundations of Meiji architecture -- Tokyo and the "problem" of styles -- F.L.W. : Japan as a "means to an end" -- Rebuilding the imperial in the 1920s: Japan gained -- Tokyo and the beginnings of "modernism" -- Rationalism and lifestyle: the thirties through the end of the war -- Ins and outs of postwar urban rhetoric -- A new dialogue with tradition -- Technology, metaphor, and the resurgence of Japanese space -- The present: between Maniera and Sachlichkeit Notes "Distributed in the United States ... through Harper and Row" -- t.p Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 1868- Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 19th century. Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Architecture -- Japan -- 19th century. Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- Japan. Architecture, Japanese. Architecture, Modern -- Japan. SUBJECT Japan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089021 -- Building Japan -- Civilization -- 1868- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069374 LC no. 87081685 ISBN 0870118447 (USA) 4770013442 (Japan)

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