Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Author: Tadahiko Higuchi

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1988-07-06

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0262580942

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In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants. He identifies features such as landmarks, boundaries, paths, and nodes that enable people moving through a landscape to piece together a reliable mental map of their surroundings, beginning with major structural elements and filling in with successively finer detail.

The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Author: Tadahiko Higuchi

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780262081207

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In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants.

Patterns and Layering
Patterns and Layering

Author: Kengo Kuma

Publisher: Gestalten

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783899554618

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Patterns and Layering is a journey into the activities of Kengo Kuma Research Lab. The book aims to establish the interrelation between patterns and layering within architecture. These two previously detached notions can now be integrated into one methodology mediated by structural concepts. Patterns and Layering is the first book to introduce this new interrelationship, which has the potential to begin a new architectural and design revolution.

Picturing Japaneseness
Picturing Japaneseness

Author: Darrell William Davis

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780231102315

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Explores the role of 1930s Japanese cinema in the construction of a national identity and in the larger context of Japan's encounter-and struggle-with the West and modernity. Davis lends a new perspective to such celebrated films as Gate of Hell, Kagemusha, and Ran.

Understanding Ordinary Landscapes
Understanding Ordinary Landscapes

Author: Paul Groth

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780300072037

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How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? Traditional studies in this field have been of rural life. Here, contributors explore aspects of the emergent field of urban cultural landscape studies--with the challenging issues of class, race, ethnicity, and subculture--to demonstrate the value of investigating the many meanings of ordinary settings. 67 illustrations.

An Anthropological lifetime in Japan
An Anthropological lifetime in Japan

Author: Joy Hendry

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 9004302875

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Joy Hendry's collection demonstrates the value of an anthropological approach to understanding a particular society by taking the reader through her own discovery of the field, explaining her practice of it in Oxford and Japan, and then offering a selection of the results and findings she obtained. Her work starts with a study of marriage made in a small rural community, continues with education and the rearing of children, and later turns to consider polite language, especially amongst women. This lead into a study of "wrapping" and cultural display, for example of gardens and theme parks, which became a comparative venture, putting Japan in a global context. Finally the book sums up change through the period of Hendry's research.

Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art
Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art

Author: Wybe Kuitert

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780824823122

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"Revised and updated, Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art presents new interpretations of the evolution of Japanese garden art. Its depth and much-needed emphasis on a practical context for garden creation will appeal to art and literary historians as well as scholars, students, and appreciators of garden and landscape art, Asian and Western."--BOOK JACKET.