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Hachioji Sennin Concentric (八王子千人同心) Kumigashira House: The mansion of the late Edo period Kumigashira (郷士). It has a higher style than ordinary private houses, such as a tatami room with an alcove and an entrance with a ceremony table. House of Kunio Maekawa: modern architecture house of Kunio Maekawa is 1942 Jitei was built ...
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.
This style had a lasting influence on later Japanese architectural styles and became the basis of modern Japanese houses. Its characteristics were that sliding doors called fusuma and paper windows called shōji were fully adopted, and tatami mats were laid all over the room. [4] [5]
Pages in category "Modernist architecture in Japan" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Row House in Sumiyoshi; S. St. Mary's Cathedral ...
Sukiya-zukuri architecture incorporates tea house aesthetics and encompasses all sorts of building types including private dwellings, villas, restaurants and inns. One of the best known examples is the Katsura Detached Palace in Kyoto.
Minoru and Teruko Yamasaki House, Bloomfield Township, Michigan, 1972 [13] Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Township, Michigan 1974 [1] Century Plaza Towers, Los Angeles, 1975 [1] U.S. Bank Tower, Denver, 1975; Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1976 [1] One Government Center (now Michael DiSalle Government Center), Toledo, Ohio, 1976 [14]
Sou Fujimoto (藤本 壮介, Fujimoto Sōsuke, born 1971) is a Japanese architect.. Born in Hokkaido in 1971, [1] he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1994, and established his own office, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in 2000. [2]
Shoin-zukuri (Japanese: 書院造, 'study room architecture') is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses.