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The Japanese teahouse
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ISBN: 9783721209976 Year: 2020 Publisher: Salenstein : Niggli,

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Japanese culture and architecture have always fascinated the Western world. One particular, architecturally complex building type at the intersection of multiple currents of Japanese philoso-phy, art and esthetics is the Japanese teahouse. It is a very private place of meditation, a place where only those may enter who have been invited, in which the host communicates with his or her guests through the medium of tea in the context of the strictly regimented ceremony. This volume expands the reader's knowledge of the built space that makes this tea ceremony possible. The author explores the philosophical background as well as the stylistic and spatial prin-ciples. He takes the reader on a cultural-historical and architectural journey through time, from the beginnings in the 15th century, when the art of the tea ceremony as well as the space in which it took place were recorded for the first time, to the present day, when the design and construction of a teahouse is still perceived in Japan as a great chal-lenge for designers and architects.


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Temple and Teahouse in Japan
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ISBN: 9783035623499 9783035623475 303562349X 3035623473 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bâle: Birkhauser ,

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After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th-18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some color photographs and numerous line drawings. His book, highly prized in terms of design and content, contributed significantly to introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and graphics. Mies van der Rohe, for example, gave it to many of his friends. 00The reprint is enriched by a text on the history of the book by Christian Blaser, Werner Blaser's son, a contribution by Inge Andritz on Mies van der Rohe and Japanese architecture, and a personal afterword by Tadao Ando


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The Oriental dream : Leopold II's Japanese Tower and Chinese Pavilion at Laeken (Brussels)
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ISBN: 906153478X Year: 2001 Publisher: Antwerpen Mercatorfonds

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