Main entry:

Fawcett, Chris.

Title & Author:

The new Japanese house : ritual and anti-ritual patterns of dwelling / Chris Fawcett.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, 1980.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm.

Series:

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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189) and index.
Architecture and the 'Techniques of Ecstasy' : A personal anthropology of the new Japanese environment -- House/home: why is it we divide the world up into houses? -- House/ritual: the space of a Japanese house is activated by many ritual occasion -- Ritual affirming houses: one type of new Japanese house -- Mishima and Abe: For and against the ritual environment: a pause in the argument -- Ritual disaffirming houses: Part one: from the sanctum to the prison -- Ritual disaffirming houses: Part two: From the cosmic to the satanic -- But finally, is there a ritual affirming architecture? Is there a ritual disaffirming architecture?
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0064330109
9780064330107

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Japan.
Dwellings Social aspects Japan.
Habitations Aspect social Japon.
Architecture, Domestic
Dwellings Social aspects
Japan

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

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Holdings:

Location: Library main 140520
Call No.: 3065; ID:86-B9994
Status: Available