Ken Tadashi Oshima

International Architecture in Interwar Japan

Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku

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Produktbeschreibung

Following World War I, a generation of young architects in Japan took part in a movement toward "international architecture," or kokusai kenchiku, designing houses for people who blended Japanese and Western customs in their daily lives, and public buildings--from schools and hospitals to weather stations and golf clubhouses--that encompassed modern forms and new materials, especially earthquake-resistant reinforced concrete, yet systhesized the new with the old.Ken Tadashi Oshima is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 210mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1048g
• ISBN-13: 9780295989440
• ISBN-10: 0295989440
• Artikelnr.: 26523822

Autorenporträt

Ken Tadashi Oshima is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Color Plates
Introduction
Chapter One: International Architecture in Japan
Chapter Two: Constructions of Practice
Chapter Three: Structures for Modern Living
Chapter Four: Buildings for Modern Infrastructure
Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of Architects and Other Major Figures
Appendix 2: Building Data
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index