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Japanese Architecture and Gardens Japanese architecture works in harmony with its surroundings and the garden. This page provides links to the most interesting and informative sites on Japanese architecture and gardens. Includes sites on Japanese villas, tea houses, palaces, and cast
Japanese Architecture and Gardens Japanese architecture works in harmony with its surroundings and the garden. This page provides links to the most interesting and informative sites on Japanese architecture and gardens.
Architecture in Asia - China and Japan and Korea and Singapore and Asia and South Asia Directory of information and photos for architecture in Cambodia, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and other countries in Asia and Southern Asia.
Born June 7: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Born in 1868 in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was inspired by Scottish traditions. Combining them with Japanese and Art Nouveau forms, he pioneered the Arts and Crafts movement in Great Britain. If you'd like to explore...
Art/Japanese Paintings The Japanese art tradition spans several millenia and is one of the most appreciated forms of non-Western art. The following links provide the most interesting and informative links to Japanese art. Includes art overviews, screen art, scroll art, bud
Representative Rebel? . - Reviews - Moekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture - book review
Jonathan M. Reynolds. Moekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 336 pp. 8 color ills., 154 b/w. $60. For anyone who has p...(Continue Reading) Japanese mountain deities - traditional Japanese perceptions of urban space
Public space in Japan is seldom regarded as hard bordered, but rather as 'kaiwai,' or an activity space. The center of a Japanese village is not found in a clearly bounded space, but rather in a linea...(Continue Reading)The museum of the Third Kind: in which the author envisions new directions for the art museum as audiences change, architecture evolves, institutions subdivide
They favor active, participatory recreation over passive, institutionalized forms. They prefer indigenous street-life culture--a teeming blend of cafes ......(Continue Reading)Santa Fe modernity: traditional and contemporary blend in an eco-friendly design
"My client requested an adobe house that was visually quiet in the landscape," says architect Beverley Spears, whose Santa Fe practice is noted for its subtly modern approach to regional...(Continue Reading)The tectonics of Japanese style: architect and carpenter in the late Meiji period - Japan 1868-1945: Art, Architecture, and National Identity
The creation of a national and modern Japanese architecture is attributed to the collaboration among Japanese architects and carpenters during the Meiji ......(Continue Reading)
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