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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).
Early Modern Japanese architecture 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 ...
The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture, From the Founders to Shinohara and Isozaki. Kodansha International. Itoh, Teiji (1972). The Classic Tradition in Japanese Architecture — Modern Versions of the Sukiya Style. Weatherhill/Tankosha. Zwerger, Klaus (2000). Wood and Wood Joints: Building Traditions of Europe and Japan. Birkhäuser.
Built in 1968, the Kasumigaseki Building was the first modern office skyscraper in Tokyo and was the prefecture's tallest building until 1970. Tokyo Tower reigned as the tallest freestanding structure in Tokyo and Japan for nearly 54 years.
Buildings and structures by Japanese architects (13 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Architecture in Japan" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 ...
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 ...
This list presents 14 entries of residential structures from 15th-century feudal Muromachi period to the early modern 17th-century Edo period. The structures listed include teahouses , shoin , guest or reception halls and other rooms which are part of Japanese domestic architecture, while most of the structures are located in temples, one is a ...
Kenzō Tange (丹下 健三, Tange Kenzō, 4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005) [1] was a Japanese architect and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for Architecture.He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents.