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Architecture of Japanese Tea Houses [PDF]
The article analyzes the development of Japanese teahouse architecture as well as the aesthetic philosophy of the Way of Tea in Japanese society of those times. It describes the history of teahouse architecture formation, the main types and constructions
Olga Andropova
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Changing Interpretations of Otherness in English-Language Accounts of Japanese Architecture
This paper surveys foreign accounts of Japanese architecture published in English from the reopening of Japan in the 1850s up to the year 2000. It shows how European and American perceptions of Japanese buildings evolved from initial dismissal, through ...
Kevin Nute
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Duration and the Ontology of Japanese Architecture
Henri Bergson’s philosophy and Japanese cultural, aesthetic, and architectural traditions share an affinity regarding their view of reality as continuous change and the awareness of the vital impulses of life in all things.
Mark Rego
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Temporal Architecture: Poetic Dwelling in Japanese buildings
Heidegger’s thinking about poetic dwelling and Derrida’s impressions of Freudian estrangement are employed to provide a constitutional analysis of the experience of Japanese architecture, in particular, the Japanese vestibule (genkan).
Michael Lazarin
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The Rediscovery of Japan: The Critical Reception of Japanese Architecture in Portugal after the Opening of Japan to the West [PDF]
The opening of Japanese ports to the West in 1854 enabled the rediscovery by the rest of the world of Japan as a country, which, until then and throughout the more than two centuries of the Sakoku or closed country period, had maintained an isolationist ...
João Miguel Couto Duarte
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Traditional Japanese architecture played an important role in the development of modern European architecture, especially from the beginning of the 20th century.
Iván Rincón-Borrego +1 more
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Daidokoro Monogatari: historias de la casa japonesa desde la cocina
Resumen Contar una historia (monogatari) sobre la cocina japonesa conlleva inevitablemente una reflexión sobre la tipología arquitectónica más célebre del país: la casa unifamiliar.
Noemí Gómez Lobo +1 more
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The Effect of Wood on Japanese Architecture: The Sample of The Horyu-Ji Temple
Traditional Japanese architecture consists of natural wood, hay, earthenware, and similar types of materials. Japanese architecture has a linear structure. The main purpose of Japanese architecture is to be unified.
Tuğçe Şirikçi
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Daidokoro Monogatari: Stories of the Japanese house from the kitchen
Telling a story (monogatari) about the Japanese kitchen inevitably entails reflecting on the most celebrated architectural typology in the country, the detached house. After World War II, it became the basic unit that shaped the Japanese urban landscape.
Noemí Gómez Lobo +1 more
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This text is based on a section from the author’s dissertation titled Japan and Modern Architecture, 1945–1970. Discourse in the mid-20th-century Europe, examining the ideas about Japanese architecture in Western, mainly European discourse between 1945 ...
Ondřej Hojda
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