Rediscovering Japanese Space
Author: Kishō Kurokawa
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 170
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Rediscovering Japanese Space
Author: Kishō Kurokawa
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRediscovering Rikyu and the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
Author: Herbert E. Plutschow
Publisher: Rediscovering
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony (cha-no-yu) that fully contextualizes tea in politics, aesthetics, ritual and art
Shadow-Makers
Author: Stephen Kite
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-10-19
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1472588118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history – to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context – tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious. Within a chronological framework encompassing medieval, baroque, enlightenment, sublime, picturesque, and modernist movements, a wide range of topics are explored, from Hawksmoor's London churches, Japanese temple complexes and the shade-patterns of Islamic cities, to Ruskin in Venice and Aldo Rossi and Louis Kahn in the 20th century. This beautifully-illustrated study seeks to understand the work of these shadow-makers through their drawings, their writings, and through the masterpieces they built.
Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House
Author: Robin Noel Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1136072667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2003. Built in 1628 at the Koto-in temple in the precincts of Daitoku-ji monastery in Kyoto, the Shoko-ken is a late medieval daime sukiya Japanese tea-house. It is attributed to Hosokawa Tadaoki, also known as Hosokawa Sansai, an aristocrat and daimyo military leader, and a disciple and friend of Sen no Riky?. This work is an extremely thorough look at one of the few remaining tea-houses of the Momoyama era tea-masters who studied with Sen no Rikyu. The English language sources on Hosokawa Sansai and his tea-houses have been exhaustively researched. Many facts and minute observations have been brought together to give even the reader unfamiliar with Tea a sense of the presence which the tea-house still manifests.
Interpretation in Architecture
Author: Adrian Snodgrass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1134222637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural creation, bringing an intellectual and scholarly dimension to real-world architectural design practice. For practising architects as well as academic researchers, these essays consider interpretation from three theoretical standpoints or themes: play, edification and otherness. Focusing on these, the book draws together strands of thought informed by the diverse reflections of hermeneutical scholarship, the uses of digital media and studio teaching and practice.
Japanese Calligraphy:The Art of Line and Space
Author: Christine Flint Sato
Publisher: kaifusha company limited
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 4876162646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author looks at the special nature of the calligraphic line and space. Based both on her study of the art under the master calligrapher Seika Kawabe and her own research, she presents both a theoretical and practical approach.
Rediscovering Japanese Business Leadership
Author: Yozo Hasegawa
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-08-24
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1118181573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho are Asia's biggest business leaders? What kind of leadership skills and philosophies do they possess that have put them at the forefront of their respective industries? What makes these business leaders, in particular, best-equipped to meet the challenges of a 21st century global economy? In Rediscovering Japanese Business Leadership, we gain insights into the leadership strategies of Japan’s most successful global brands, including Toyota, Canon, and Nintendo. This book will be the first title in a series on Asian business leaders, leading companies and corporate philosophies in the 21st century. The inaugural volume will focus on business leaders and strategies at Japanese companies that are not only driving and reshaping their respective industries in the 21st century, but are demonstrating a knack for consistently meeting the various challenges of today's rapidly changing world.
Music, Subcultures and Migration
Author: Elke Weesjes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1040005500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framework, the collection traces how music and subcultures travel through, to and from democracies, autocracies and anocracies. The chosen approach is multidisciplinary and deliberately diverse. Using both archival sources and oral testimony from a wide variety of musicians, promoters, critics and members of the audience, contributors from a range of academic disciplines explore music and subcultural forms in countries across Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and Africa. They investigate how far the meaning of music and associated subcultures change as they move from one context to another and consider whether they transcend or blur parameters of class, race, gender and sexuality.
Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement
Author: Zhongjie Lin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-08-31
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 100092663X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid Japan’s political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzō Tange’s Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an unprecedented scale. Metabolists’ visionary schemes of the city gave birth to revolutionary design paradigms, which reinvented the discourse of modern Japanese architecture and propelled it through the years of Economic Miracle to a global prominence. Their utopian concepts, which often envisaged the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future, reflected fundamental issues of cultural transformation and addressed environmental crises of the postindustrial society. This new edition expands Zhongjie Lin’s pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey, from Metabolism’s inauguration at the 1960 World Design Conference to the apex of the movement at Expo ’70 and further to the recent demolition of Nakagin Capsule Tower, leads to a definition of three Metabolist urban paradigms – megastructure, group form, and ruins – which continue to inspire experiments in architecture, city design, and conservation. Kenzō Tange and the Metabolist Movement is a key book for architectural and urban historians, architects, and all those interested in avant-garde design, Japanese architecture, and contemporary urbanism.
