Japanese architecture

Tadao Ando: conversations with students

by Andō, Tadao, Hunter, Matthew

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The newest volume in our popular Conversations series features Japanese architect Tadao Ando. One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse Japanese building traditions with Western modernism. His minimalist m…

The art of Japanese architecture

by Young, David E., (David Earl), Young, Michiko

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Husband-and-wife collaborators David Young (anthropology, Univ. of Alberta) and Michiko Young have been studying Japanese aesthetics for years. Previously, they wrote The Art of the Japanese Garden, and now they tackle Japanese architecture, perfectly melding East and West to gi…