Maekawa Kunio And The Emergence Of Japanese Modernist Architecture
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Author | : Jonathan M. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2001-07-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780520921412 |
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. In a career spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, Maekawa's work and critical writing put him in the vanguard of the Japanese architectural profession. Jonathan Reynolds illuminates Maekawa's role as a bridge between prewar and postwar architecture in Japan, focusing particularly on how he influenced modernism's ambivalence regarding "tradition" and contemporary practice and the importance of technology in modernist design and ideology. Maekawa studied architecture at the prestigious Tokyo Imperial University before moving to Paris in 1928 to work with Le Corbusier. The latter experience had a powerful impact on Maekawa; he became an advocate for Le Corbusier and modernism when he returned to Japan two years later. Throughout his career Maekawa designed residential, commercial, and government buildings in Japan and abroad. He became particularly well known internationally for his approach to public architecture, especially museums and public spaces such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall. These projects illustrated the principles that earned Maekawa the respect and admiration of architects the world over. Carefully researched, with numerous illustrations that complement discussions of Maekawa's principal projects, Reynolds's book will be welcomed in the fields of architecture and design. It will also attract readers interested in twentieth-century Japan, for in addition to highlighting Maekawa's architectural career, Reynolds portrays the broader cultural context within which Maekawa and other Japanese architects and artists sought to be heard and recognized.
Author | : Jonathan McKean Reynolds |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780520214958 |
Through careful archival research, Reynolds places the life and architectural career of Maekawa Kunio (1905-1986) in larger social and professional contexts in Japan.
Author | : Jonathan McKean Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Architects |
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Author | : Jonathan M. Reynolds |
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : 前川國男 |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Architects |
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Author | : James Philip Noffsinger |
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Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Marianne Ibler |
Publisher | : Aalborg University Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Examines the architecture of Japanese architects Kenzo Tange, Junzo Sakakura, Kiyonori Kikutake and Kunio Maekawa, leading exponents of the 'New Japanese School' in architecture in the middle of the 20th century.
Author | : Ken Tadashi Ōshima |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Following World War I, a generation of young architects in Japan took part in a movement toward "international architecture," or kokusai kenchiku, designing houses for people who blended Japanese and Western customs in their daily lives, and public buildings--from schools and hospitals to weather stations and golf clubhouses--that encompassed modern forms and new materials, especially earthquake-resistant reinforced concrete, yet systhesized the new with the old.--Ken Tadashi Oshima is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington.
Author | : Fumihiko Maki |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-09-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262311682 |
Unavailable as a collection until now, these essays document both the intellectual journey of one of the world's leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought. Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history. Maki's treatment of his two overarching themes—the contemporary city and modernist architecture—demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected) linkages between urban theory and architectural practice. Images and commentary on three of Maki's own works demonstrate the connection between his writing and his designs. Moving through the successive waves of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism, and other isms, these essays reflect how several generations of architectural thought and expression have been resolved within one career.
Author | : Process Architecture |
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Release | : 1984-06-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780442272517 |