Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture

• Utgivningsdatum: 2010-02-22
• Mått: 219 x 276 x 18 mm
• Vikt: 1 180 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 288
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9780415778916

• Arkitektur

Dana Buntrock began her studies of Japanese architecture more than twenty years ago, her first visit a month-long trip that took her to tiny corners of the country to see avant-garde and out-of-the-way works. Her more recent research trips still range in remote pockets of the country, now renting cars, carrying a complex array of cameras and seeking out craftsmen who carry on age-old traditions. The architecture she sees is still often avant-garde, but today there are other approaches evident as well, ones more concerned with underscoring the uniqueness of these remote regions. Buntrock’s first book, Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process: Opportunities in a Flexible Construction Culture (E&FN Spon, 2001) looked at professional practice and what it said about a nation’s culture. Her second, Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture (Routledge, 2010) is concerned with the art and craft of architecture, and how these are used to reflect the particularities of places.

"Dana Buntrock has written a valuable and long-needed overview of the historic, aesthetic, and spiritual meanings attached to Japanese building materials. By taking this approach, she reveals, for instance, Fumihiko Maki's feel for traditional vernacular materials like cedar, demonstrating that much of contemporary Japanese architecture judiciously juggles past and present. 'Natural materials are garrulous,' architect Hiroshi Naito tells the author. Buntrock offers insights into how the most ancient and 'talky' materials catalyze flexible thinking in the most modern of Japan's architects." -Norman Weinstein, Architectural Record

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