Japan-Ness in Architecture

Name: Japan-Ness in Architecture
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ISBN: 9780262090384

ISBN-10: 0262090384

ISBN-13: 9780262090384

Edition: 2005

Authors: Arata Isozaki, Sabu Kohso, David B. Stewart, Toshiko Mori

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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. In the opening essay, Isozaki analyzes the struggles of modern Japanese architects, including himself, to create something uniquely Japanese out of modernity. He then circles back in history to find what he calls Japan-ness in the seventh-century Ise shrine, reconstruction of the twelfth-century Todai-ji Temple,…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/16/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Arata Isosaki is a leading Japanese architect. His works include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, the Volksbank Center am Postdamer Platz in Berlin, the Team Disney Building in Orlando, and the Tokyo University of Art and Design.

Shigenori Chikmatsuwas a warrior who studied and deeply enjoyed the tea ceremony. His manuscript on the tea ceremony remained unpublished until 1804. Kozaburo Morireceived the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of Japan for his long service in education.



Foreword



Preface


Translator's Note



Japan-ness in Architecture



Japanese Taste and Its Recent Historical Construction



Western Structure versus Japanese Space



Yayoi and Jomon



Nature and Artifice



Ka (Hypothesis) and Hi (Spirit)



Ma (Interstice) and Rubble



Fall and Mimicry: A Case Study of the Year 1942 in Japan



A Mimicry of Origin: Emperor Tenmu's Ise Jingu



The Problematic Called "Ise"



Identity over Time



Archetype of Veiling



A Fabricated Origin: Ise and the Jinshin Disturbance



Construction of the Pure Land (Jodo): Chogen's Rebuilding of Todai-ji



The Modern Fate of Pure Geometric Form



Chogen's Constructivism



The Five-Ring Pagoda in Historical Turmoil



Mandala and Site Plan at Jodo-ji



The Architectonics of the Jodo-do (Pure Land Pavilion) at Jodo-ji



Big Buddha Pavilion (Daibutsu-den) at Todai-ji



Chogen's Archi-vision



A Multifaceted Performance



Brunelleschi versus Chogen



Chogen/Daibutsu-yo and Eisai/Zenshu-yo



Three Kinds of Hierophany



Raigo Materialized



A Non-Japanesque Japanese Architecture



A Diagonal Strategy: Katsura as Envisioned by "Enshu Taste"



Katsura and Its Space of Ambiguity



Architectonic Polysemy



Authorship of Katsura: The Diagonal Line


Glossary of Names, Buildings, and Technical Terms


Notes


Index