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Based on extensive research, this book provides a synthetic overview that brings together the main themes of Japanese and Western architecture since 1850 and shows that neither could exist in its present state without the other.
List of contents
Prelude. Part I: Shogun. 1. the Chained Country; 2. The Japanese Ambassadors; 3. The Land of the Morning; Part II: Meiji. 4. The Japanese Pavilions; 5. The Art-Architects; 6. The Manners of the West; 7. The Western Architects; 8. The Japanese Architects; Part III: Taisho. 9. The Winds of Heaven; 10. The Shaken Reed; 11. The Principle of Evolution; Part IV: Showa. 12. The Artist Samurai; 13. The Presence of Le Corbusier; 14. The Pacific Rim; 15. The West and Japan
About the author
Neil Jackson is an architect and architectural historian and holds the Charles Reilly Chair in the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. He previously taught at the University of Leeds (2000-2005), the University of Nottingham (1990-2000) and at the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, California (1985-1990). He is currently a Professorial Research Associate in the Japanese Research Centre at SOAS (the School of African and Oriental Studies), University of London. His previous books include The Modern Steel House, 1996; Craig Ellwood, 2002; Pierre Koenig, 2007; and Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town, 2010.
Summary
Based on extensive research, this book provides a synthetic overview that brings together the main themes of Japanese and Western architecture since 1850 and shows that neither could exist in its present state without the other.
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“An ambitious and exhaustively researched book…. Jackson’s well-illustrated essays track important figures, movements and themes, from the isolationist, feudal pre-Meji period to the present, switching back and forth between parallel or related developments in Japan, Europe and the USA.” – Paul Baxter, Architecture Today
