Entrée principale:

Isozaki, Arata.

Titre et auteur:

Japan-ness in architecture / Arata Isozaki ; translated by Sabu Kohso ; edited by David B. Stewart ; foreword by Toshiko Mori.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.

Description:

xx, 349 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
"An earlier version of this text was originally to have appeared as the fifth book in the Oppositions books series under the title: The ruin of styles : selected writings of Arata Isozaki 1960-1985"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
"An earlier version of this text was originally to have appeared as the fifth book in the Oppositions books series under the title: The ruin of styles : selected writings of Arata Isozaki 1960-1985"--CIP galley.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.
Part I. Japan-ness in architecture: Japanese taste and its recent historical construction -- Western structure versus Japanese space -- Yayoi and Jōmon -- Nature and artifice -- Ka (hyopthesis) and Hi (spirit) -- Ma (interstice) and rubble -- Fall and mimicry: a case study of the year 1942 in Japan -- Part II. A mimicry of origin: Emperor Tenmu's Ise Jungū: The problematic called "Ise" -- Identity over time -- Archetype of veiling -- A fabricated origin: Ise and the Jinshin disturbance -- Part III. Construction of the pure land (Jōdo): Chōgen's rebuilding of Tōdai-ji: The modern fate of pure geometric form -- Chōgen's constructivism -- The five-ring pagoda in historical turmoil -- Mandala and site plan at Jōdo-ji -- The architectonics of the Jōdo-dō (Pure Land Pavilion) at Jōdo-ji -- Big Buddha Pavilion (Daibutsu-den) at Tōdai-ji -- Chōgen's archi-vision -- A multifaceted performance -- Brunelleschi versus Chōgen -- Chōgen/Daibutsu-yō and Eisai/Zenshu-yō -- Three kinds of hierophany -- Raigō materialized -- A non-Japanesque Japanese architecture -- Part IV. A diagonal strategy: Katsura as envisioned by "Enshū taste": Katsura and its space of ambiguity -- Architectonic polysemy -- Authorship of Katsura: the diagonal line.
Translated from the Japanese.

Résumé:

"Combining historical survey, critical analysis, theoretical reflection, and autobiographical account, these essays, written over a period of twenty years, demonstrate Isozaki's standing as one of the world's leading architects and preeminent architectural thinkers."--Jacket.

Ressources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9780262090384
0262090384
9780262516051
0262516055

Sujet:

Isozaki, Arata 1931-2022
Isozaki, Arata, 1931-.
Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
Architecture Japan.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Japanese.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture Japon.
Architecture japonaise.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architecture
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Philosophie
Japan.

Vedettes secondaires:

Stewart, David B.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 246031
Cote: BIB 175637
Statut: Disponible