9781904313373: Katsura

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SKU 9781904313373
Title Katsura
Author Description Edited by Arata Isozaki. Essays by Francesco Dal Co, Walter Gropius, Arata Isozaki, Manfred Speidel, Kenzo Tange and Bruno Taut
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Web Author Description Francesco Dal Co is Professor of Architectural History at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice. He was Director of the architecture section of the 1991 Venice Biennale.
webLongDescription This book presents a detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan, that is a pivotal work of Japanese architecture, often described as the "quintessence of Japanese taste". First revealed to the modern architectural world by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, in the early twentieth-century, Katsura stunned and then excited the architectural community of the West. Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, pillars of the Modernist establishment, were fascinated by Katsura's "modernity". They saw in it orthogonal and modular spaces, devoid of decoration, clear parallels to contemporary Modernism, going so far as to proclaim Katsura a "historical" example of modernity. This book documents the palace in detail, combining newly commissioned photographs, detailed drawings, archival material, and historical analysis.
Binding Hardback
Size Size: 280 x 250 mm (11 x 9 7/8 in)
Pages Pages: 402
Illustrations 197

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