Form & space in Japanese architecture / Norman F. Carver, Jr.

Main entry:

Carver, Norman F., Jr.

Title & Author:

Form & space in Japanese architecture / Norman F. Carver, Jr.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Kalamazoo, Mich. : Documan Press, 1993.

Description:

224 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
First edition published in 1955 as: Form and space of Japanese architecture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This groundbreaking book, first published in the 1950's & long out-of-print, has been greatly expanded with more than 100 new photographs superbly printed from all new laser-scanned plates. Not a historical survey, the book illuminates principles underlying traditional Japanese architecture's elegant forms & lyrical spaces with examples from renowned palaces to obscure temples --documented during Carver's years in Japan. Reviewing the first edition of FORM & SPACE IN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE, critics wrote, "Carver teaches through his camera how to see Japanese architecture from an angle quite new & different ... he shows the oldest is akin to the newest"; " ... his fresh sense makes even we Japanese find new ways of looking at Japanese architecture which has escaped most people --there is almost no other book of its kind." Architect Walter Gropius called it "outstanding, particularly as a stimulation for the contemporary architect ... an extraordinary collection of photographs ... of all the books it has the best understanding of what I believe to be Japanese architecture."

ISBN:

0932076106
9780932076106
0932076114 (pbk.)
9780932076113 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Japan.
Architecture Japon.
Architecture.
Japan.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Form and space in Japanese architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222321
Call No.: NA44.C332.A35 1993
Status: Available

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