The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture
by Stewart, David B.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Kodansha USA Inc
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Summary
This is a definitive history of the rise and evolution of modernism inapanese architecture. Illustrated with over 400 photographs, the studyxplores the influence of 20th-century Western architectural ideas on theevelopment of Japan's urban landscapes.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Paperback Edition | p. 7 |
| Preface | p. 9 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 11 |
| The Victorian Foundations of Meiji Architecture | p. 13 |
| A Necessary Restoration | p. 13 |
| New Towns and Foreign Building Types | p. 15 |
| Enter the Surveyor | p. 17 |
| With Brick and Stone under Imperial Contract | p. 18 |
| Native Assimilation of Western Techniques and Styles | p. 22 |
| Some Speculation about Giyofu Motifs | p. 27 |
| Systematization and Rationalization | p. 31 |
| Tokyo and the "Problem" of Styles | p. 33 |
| Competing Influences and the College of Engineering | p. 33 |
| Japanese Exposure to the Queen Anne Revival | p. 37 |
| Proposals for a Japanese Whitehall | p. 38 |
| The Rest of the City | p. 41 |
| The German Neo-Renaissance Episode | p. 43 |
| Kingo Tatsuno, Architect to the Nation | p. 48 |
| Tokuma Katayama, Architect to the Crown | p. 55 |
| F.L.W.: Japan as a "Means to an End" | p. 63 |
| The Birth of Modernism | p. 63 |
| "Japanism" as an Aspect of Historicism | p. 64 |
| The Notion of Architectural "Truth" | p. 65 |
| The Sistine Chapel and the Phoenix Hall | p. 69 |
| The Japanese Print | p. 74 |
| Rebuilding the Imperial in the 1920s: Japan Gained | p. 77 |
| The Legend | p. 77 |
| What the Building Really Was | p. 79 |
| How Wright Conceived the Second Imperial | p. 81 |
| The Role of Japan | p. 83 |
| Tokyo and the Beginnings of "Modernism" | p. 90 |
| Antithesis | p. 90 |
| Tokyo in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century | p. 90 |
| Notions Bearing on Style | p. 91 |
| Conflict between Structure and Expression | p. 92 |
| Expressionist Trends in Public Building | p. 96 |
| An Early Modern Residence | p. 101 |
| Rationalism and Lifestyle: The Thirties through the End of the War | p. 107 |
| Nationalism and the Quest for Japanese Taste | p. 107 |
| Unbuilt Manchukuo: A Lost "Opportunity" | p. 110 |
| Artistic Rehabilitation of Traditional Taste | p. 111 |
| A Style for the Times: P.O. Buildings and Schools | p. 113 |
| Kikuji Ishimoto's German Connection | p. 118 |
| The Joint-Style Modern Japanese Residence | p. 124 |
| High Modern Climax: Antonin Raymond's Residential Styles | p. 129 |
| The Diffusion of High Modernism in a Native Climate | p. 142 |
| Group Housing and Other Social Aspects of Showa Architecture | p. 146 |
| Kunio Maekawa | p. 152 |
| Three German-Trained Architects in Bitter Times | p. 159 |
| Ins and Outs of Postwar Urban Rhetoric | p. 164 |
| Internationalism: Sun and Shadow | p. 164 |
| The Beginnings of Tange's Career | p. 170 |
| Japan and CIAM: Hiroshima | p. 172 |
| Otterlo, MIT, and Metabolism | p. 177 |
| "The West's Favorite Japanese Architect" | p. 182 |
| Fate of a "Grand" Design: Tokyo | p. 184 |
| A New Dialogue with Tradition | p. 186 |
| Town and Country | p. 186 |
| Le Corbusier's Parentage of the Japan Style | p. 189 |
| The Next Step | p. 190 |
| Home Front | p. 192 |
| Third-Man Theme | p. 197 |
| Abstraction with Traditional Forms | p. 202 |
| Doubts about Nation and Style | p. 205 |
| Le Corbusier in Tokyo | p. 206 |
| "Japanese Space" | p. 210 |
| Frontality or "Revolution" | p. 213 |
| Shell Game and Recourse to Wit | p. 215 |
| Technology, Metaphor, and the Resurgence of Japanese Space | p. 219 |
| To Build or Destroy | p. 219 |
| Isozaki in Kyushu: Semiotics Replaces Semantics | p. 223 |
| A New Kind of Space... | p. 228 |
| ...And Its Politics | p. 229 |
| Reflections and Transparencies | p. 230 |
| Architecture as Metalanguage | p. 231 |
| Returning to a "Space of Darkness" | p. 233 |
| Implications for the City | p. 234 |
| New Values in Everyday Things | p. 235 |
| The Present: Between MAniera and Sachlichkeit | p. 237 |
| F.L. Wright and the Ungraspable Tao | p. 237 |
| Seven Operations of Manner (Signed Isozaki) | p. 239 |
| Chessboards and Mandalas | p. 240 |
| "Hard" and "Soft" and the Formalist Literary Device | p. 242 |
| Semiotics and Neo-Formalism | p. 244 |
| Two Incomparables: Points in Common | p. 244 |
| A Different Time and Place | p. 246 |
| Maniera and the Cube | p. 248 |
| Rhetoric of the Cylinder | p. 256 |
| An Aqueous Metaphor | p. 261 |
| Squaring the Circle at Kamioka | p. 265 |
| Space-Time in Japan: Paris/New York | p. 267 |
| Shinohara and the "Second Style" | p. 268 |
| "Third Style" and Gap | p. 269 |
| Sachlichkeit Alive and Well in Uehara | p. 277 |
| Notes and References | p. 282 |
| Additional Sources and Further Reading | p. 290 |
| List of Illustrations | p. 293 |
| Photographic Credits | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 298 |
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