Katsura

Katsura
Author: Arata Isozaki
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780714862545

A detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan, a pivotal work of Japanese architecture, often described as the 'quintessence of Japanese taste'. First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early twentieth-century, Katsura stunned and then excited the architectural community of the West. Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, pillars of the Modernist establishment, were fascinated by Katsura's 'modernity'. This book documents the palace in detail, combining newly commissioned photographs, detailed drawings, archival material, and historical analysis.

Katsura

Katsura
Author: Akira Naito
Publisher: Kodansha
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1977
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9784770005427

Katsura

Katsura
Author: Arata Isozaki
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This book presents a detailed history of Katsura, the 17thcentury Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan that is a pivotal work of Japanese Architecture, often described as the "quintessence of Japanese taste". First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early 20th century, Katsura stunned and then excited the architectural community of the West. Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, pillars of the Modernist establishment, were fascinated by Katsura's "modernity." They saw in its orthogonal and modular spaces, devoid of decoration, clear parallels to contemporary Modernism, going so far as to proclaim Katsura a "historical" example of Modernity. This book documents the palace in detail, combining newly commissioned photographs, detailed drawings, archival material and historical analysis.

Katsura

Katsura
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1983
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Katsura

Katsura
Author: Yasufumi Nakamori
Publisher: Museum Fine Arts Houston
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 20-Sept. 12, 2010.

A World History of Architecture

A World History of Architecture
Author: Marian Moffett
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781856693714

The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations.

Katsura Villa

Katsura Villa
Author: Arata Isozaki
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1987
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Japanese Biographical Index

Japanese Biographical Index
Author:
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1124
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 3110947986

Der Japanische Biographische Index verzeichnet in drei Bänden die 86.800 im Japanischen Biographischen Archiv enthaltenen Persönlichkeiten und erschließt 127.000 biographische Einträge aus 77 Quellenwerken in 178 Bänden, erschienen zwischen 1646 und 1998.

Masako Katsura Biography

Masako Katsura Biography
Author: Jesus GALLEGOS ROSAS
Publisher:
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-06-19
Genre:
ISBN:

Biography of the greatest billiard player of all time.MASAKO KATSURA from Japan.All her life, from 1913 to 1995. Her titles, his achievements, her travels, her games, her defeats and anecdotes in three cushion world championships. More than 280 pages of all her history.Masako Katsura is considered "THE FIRST LADY OF BILLIARDS", who made history in her career, because she broke the barrier of gender and male dominance in a sport of knights and chivalry, competing in equal circumstances in several professional world billiards championships to three cushion.The author does not skimp on data, comments, photographs, statistics, graphics, images, etc. This complete and meticulous biography is dedicated to the Japanese champion, who, in that environment, surprised the entire world and won the hearts of all billiards fans on 5 continents.Pioneer in competing against the most powerful professional players of her time.This great Japanese champion, has lasted many decades in oblivion, but from now on you will find in this book, the fascination of the atmosphere of those memorable times, and will revive epics, where this talented player beat the most powerful players in the world in various world championships .She beat in tournaments, to all the great champions, like Willie Hoppe, Joe Chamaco, Kinrey Matsuyama, Ray Kilgore, Jay Bozeman, Joe Procita, Arthur Rubin, Herb Hardt, Ezequiel Navarra, Harold Worst, Juan Navarra, Ray Miller, Welker Cochran, Danny McGoorty, Mel Lundberg, Keizo Kubo, John Fitzpatrick, George Pentaris, Bill Hawkins, etc. etc.In addition, the book features an illustrated gallery of all of Japan's billiard champions from 1938 to 2019, all of the Amateur and Professional World Champions from 1878 to 2019.Author: Jesús Humberto Gallegos Rosas.Collaborations of Charlie Ursitti (Q.E.P.D.), Mario Sureda, Koichi Urabe, Mike Shamos and Tadashi Machida.Large format: 8.5 X 11 inches