The Japanese House: A Tradition for Contemporary Architecture, 1st Edition

A serious book for anyone with an interest in the architecture of the Japanese house. A complex book with great substance. An introduction by Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the Bauhaus movement and pioneers of modern architecture, deems the importance of this book as a major contribution of bridging the gap between Western and Eastern approaches to architecture. The author in his preface writes of the alienation and "emotional indifference to the forms creat... >Voir plus