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[5] [9] He was also a leading proponent of the Imperial Crown style of architecture, which had been developed for the Japanese Empire by architect Shimoda Kikutaro. [10] [11] Itō helped formulate the Ancient Temples and Shrines Preservation Law of 1897, an early measure to protect the Cultural Properties of Japan. [12]
The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture, From the Founders to Shinohara and Isozaki. Kodansha International. Sumner, Yuki; Pollock, Naomi (2010). New Architecture in Japan. London: Merrell. ISBN 978-1-85894-450-0. Takasaki, Masaharu (1998). An Architecture of Cosmology. Princeton Architectural Press. Tanigawa, Masami (2008).
Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男, Maekawa Kunio, 14 May 1905 – 26 June 1986) was a Japanese architect and a key figure in Japanese postwar modernism. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his own architectural language after establishing his own firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design and ...
The Imperial Crown Style (帝冠様式, teikan yōshiki) of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century. The style is identified by Japanese-style roofing on top of Neoclassical styled buildings; [1] and can have a centrally elevated structure with a pyramidal hip roof. Outside of the Japanese ...
Shimoda Kikutarō (Japanese: 下田 菊太郎, 2 May 1866 – 26 December 1931 [1]) was an architect who created the prototype of the Imperial Crown Style for the Japanese Empire. [2] He was a native of Akita, in northern Honshu, and moved to Tokyo in 1881, when he was fifteen. At Keio University, he enrolled in an architecture course under ...
Architecture; Cultural Landscapes; ... Heian jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. ... The Japanese Empire in 1939.
Traditional Japanese architecture (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Japanese architectural history" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The following is a chronological list of notable Japanese architects This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .