Main entry:

Seike, Kiyoshi, 1918-2005.

Title & Author:

Contemporary Japanese houses / by Kiyosi Seike and Charles S. Terry ; photographs by Akio Kawasumi.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Tokyo : Kodansha International : Japan Publications Trading Co., distributors, Rutland, Vt., [1964-1968]

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (part mounted color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Vol. 2 by Charles S. Terry.
Vol. 2 by C.S. Terry.
Preface / Charles S. Terry -- Introduction -- Skylights and Inner Gardens / Junzō Sakakura Design Research Center -- House and Atelier for a Painter / Kiyosi Seike -- House Near the Fields / Kiyosi Seike -- One-Room House / Shin Takaya -- In the Old Tradition / Seiichi Shirai -- House on The Bluff / Tatsuya Hirobe and Tadashi Okamura -- Town Dwelling / Tadayoshi Fujiki -- House for Actors / Kamon Tatehata -- House with a Closed Front / Junzō Yoshimura -- House of Brick and Chestnut / Design Section, Takenaka Construction Co. -- Concrete Box for the City / RIA Group -- House with Laminated Beams / RIA Group -- Suburban House / Tetsuya Hayashi -- Weekend House / Junzō Yoshimura -- House with Fir Trees / Antonin Raymond -- On Stilts in the Mountains / Akio Yamamoto and Tsutomu Ikuta -- The House Called "Moby Dick" / Dan Miyawaki -- Variation on the Classic Style / Nobuko Nakahara -- Split-Level Country House / Design Department, Kajima Construction Co. -- Cliff House by the Sea / Masako Hayashi.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

" ... Since the Second World War the family system has largely broken down, and industries centered around consumer goods have expanded at a lightning pace, with the result that the Japanese house has undergone a rapid transformation. This book describes how these changes continue to affect Japanese residential architecture ..."-- from the flyleaf.

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Japan.
Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Interior decoration Japan.
Architecture, Domestic Japan 20th century.
Sea anemones.
Décoration intérieure Japon.
Architecture domestique Japon 20e siècle.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Interior decoration
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture Japan 20th century
Japan

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Terry, Charles S., author.
Kawasumi, Akio
Terry, Charles S.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 28902
Call No.: NA7451.S38 (PO2928)
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available