Main entry:

Blaser, Werner, 1924-2019, author.

Title & Author:

Temple and teahouse in Japan / Werner Blaser ; translation from German into English, D. Q. Stephenson, and Joseph O'Donnell (epilogues).

Edition:

New edition.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhauser, [2021]

Description:

171 pages : illustrations, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
"Expanded reprint of the edition from 1956, F.W. Dodge Corporation, New York"--Colophon.
Descriptive text accompanying illustrations in German, French and English.
Zen Buddhist temples at Kyōto : Ginkaku-ji ; Tōkyū-do ; Daitoku-ji ; Kohō-an ; Ryōkō-in ; Sangen-in ; Manju-in ; Saihō-ji ; Ryōan-ji -- Temple and dwelling-house at Kyōto : Daigo Sambō-in ; Shōgetsu-tei ; Myōki-an ; Ninna-ji -- Tea-ceremony schools at Kyōto : Ura-senke ; Omote-senke -- Imperial villas at Kyōto : Katsura Palace ; Gepparō ; Manji-tei ; Shōkin-tei ; O-machiai ; Shūgaku-in-Palace ; Jugetsu-kan ; Rin-un-tei ; Kyūsui-ken ; Farmhouse -- Places at Kyōto : Nijō-Castle ; Kaiser Palace ; Kōjō-in -- Shinto shrines : Ise shrine ; Kamigamo shrine -- My father and Japan / Christian W. Blaser -- Mies van der Rohe, Japan and Werner Blaser's Collages / Igne Andritz -- My encounters with Werner Blaser / Tadao Ando.

Summary:

After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th-18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some color photographs and numerous line drawings. His book, highly prized in terms of design and content, contributed significantly to introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and graphics. Mies van der Rohe, for example, gave it to many of his friends. 00The reprint is enriched by a text on the history of the book by Christian Blaser, Werner Blaser's son, a contribution by Inge Andritz on Mies van der Rohe and Japanese architecture, and a personal afterword by Tadao Ando.

ISBN:

9783035623475 (hardcover)
9783035623499 (softcover)
303562349X
3035623473

Subject:

Temples Japan.
Architecture, Domestic Japan.
Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms)
Temples Japan Pictorial works.
Architecture, Domestic Japan Pictorial works.
Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms) Pictorial works.
Chashitsu.
Chashitsu Ouvrages illustrés.
teahouses.
Architecture, Domestic
Temples
Japan.

Form/genre:

Pictorial works

Added entries:

Stephenson, D. Q., translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327919
Call No.: 327919
Copy: 1
Status: Available