Barr, John (Architect), author.

20th century Japan in 20 buildings / John Barr.

London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2022.
©2022

287 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 25 cm

There is a long history in the West of viewing Japan through the twin lenses of orientalism and exoticism. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the re-opening of Japan after a long period of self-imposed isolation there has been a succession of commentators who have sought to present Japan as somehow 'other' and not susceptible to ready understanding. Too often the study of Japanese architecture has followed this pattern or has been presented as a series of visual images that are explained as if they emerged from some unique alchemy of sensitivity and mysticism. This book argues that Japanese modern architecture emerged from identifiable events: political, social, economic, historical events, and is as susceptible as any other architecture to analysis and criticism in these terms. Episodic rather than encyclopaedic, it does not describe every twist and turn in the development of modern Japanese architecture, but rather, it examines twenty buildings spanning the 20th century and places them in the context of the political, social and economic, as well as the historical and cultural factors that shaped both them and modern Japan. Each building has been chosen because it reflects a major event in the development of modern Japan and its architecture.

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Architecture Japan History 20th century.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Economic history.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Japan History 20th century.
Japan Social conditions 20th century.
Japan Economic conditions 20th century.
Japan Politics and government 20th century.
Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Japon Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Japon Conditions économiques 20e siècle.
Japon Politique et gouvernement 20e siècle.
Japan.

History.

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