Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: June 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780520214958
Subjects: Individual architects; Modernism; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; 20th century; Japan; Criticism; Architecture; Modern movement (Architecture); Individual Architect; International Architecture - Asian; Art / General; 1868-
First sentence: Western architectural practices were well established in Japan by the time Maekawa Kunio entered the architectural profession by beginning his studies at Tokyo Imperial University in the 1920s.
Description: "Japanese architecture's commanding presence on the world stage can be traced to the struggles of earlier generations of Japan's modernist architects. This first book-length study of Maekawa Kunio (1905-1986) focuses on one of the most distinctive leaders in Japan's modernist architectural community. Maekawa's work and critical writing, produced during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1980s, put him at the vanguard of the Japanese architectural profession.

Jonathan Reynolds shows how Maekawa negotiated the transition in Japan between prewar and postwar architecture and how his work, which explored modernism's ambivalence about the relation between "tradition" and contemporary practice, also exploited the new technology and building materials, incorporating them into modernist design and ideology."--BOOK JACKET.