The carpenter & the architect : a history of wood construction in Japan / Benoît Jacquet, Teruaki Matsuzaki, Manuel Tardits ; translated by Christian Hubert.

Main entry:

Jacquet, Benoît, author.

Title & Author:

The carpenter & the architect : a history of wood construction in Japan / Benoît Jacquet, Teruaki Matsuzaki, Manuel Tardits ; translated by Christian Hubert.

Edition:

First edition in English.

Publication:

Lausanne : EPFL Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

435 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Le charpentier et l'architecte : une histoire de la construction en bois au Japon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-428).
A Story Of Principles -- Complexity In Architecture... A La Japanese -- The Different Architectural Types -- Evolutions Of The Plan -- Constructional Combinatorics -- Towards Asymmetry -- Innovations Within Interior Space: From The Posttothetatami -- Irregular Spaces: The Association Of Hiroma And Koma Rooms -- Nature And Architecture -- A Few More Rings In Closing -- A Modern Story -- The Importation Of Western Styles During The Meiji Era -- The Creation Of An Oriental Japanese Style -- The Beginings Of Modern Japanese Architecture: The Influence Of Expressionism -- Modern Architecture In Wood: The Corbusian School -- Postwar: The Tange Saga -- Towards An Abstract Japanese Space: The Shinohara Schoo -- The Coordinates Of Irrationality In Japanese Space -- Towards An Architecture... In Wood -- Variations On The Style -- Contemporary Sukiya Architecture: An Exception To The Rule? -- A Particular Story -- An Example From Today -- History And Culture -- Identification Of A Center -- Principles Of An Ontology Of Construction -- Past-Present -- Postscript: Tradition, Who Are You? -- Japanese Terms -- Index Of Proper Names -- Place Names.

ISBN:

9782889154456 (pbk.)
2889154459

Subject:

Building, Wooden Japan History.
Architecture, Japanese History.
Architecture, Japanese.
Building, Wooden Japan.
Architecture japonaise.
Architecture japonaise Histoire.
Construction en bois Japon.
Construction en bois Japon Histoire.
Building, Wooden
Japan

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Matsuzaki, Teruaki, 1955- author.
Tardits, Manuel, 1959- author.
Hubert, Christian, 1948- translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316716
Call No.: 316716
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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