Book

Japan-ness in architecture

by  Arata Isozaki / David B Stewart

Table Of Contents

  • Part I. Japan-ness in architecture: Japanese taste and its recent historical construction
  • Western structure versus Japanese space
  • Yayoi and Jomon
  • 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 Jingu: 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 (Jodo): Chogen's rebuilding of Todai-ji: The modern fate of pure geometric form
  • Chogen's constructivism
  • The five-ring pagoda in historical turmoil
  • Mandala and site plan at Jodo-ji
  • The architectonics of the Jodo-do (Pure Land Pavilion) at Jodo-ji
  • Big Buddha Pavilion (Daibutsu-den) at Todai-ji
  • Chogen's archi-vision
  • A multifaceted performance
  • Brunelleschi versus Chogen
  • Chogen/Daibutsu-yo and Eisai/Zenshu-yo
  • Three kinds of hierophany
  • Raigo materialized
  • A non-Japanesque Japanese architecture
  • Part IV. A diagonal strategy: Katsura as envisioned by "Enshu taste": Katsura and its space of ambiguity
  • Architectonic polysemy
  • Authorship of Katsura: the diagonal line

Subject

Philosophy / Architecture

Details

Published Cambridge, MA. : MIT Press, 2006
Language English
Material xx, 349 p.
ISBN 0262090384
Location
NA 1550 I853 2006
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack2

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