The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind

ISBN-13: 9781138390751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 124 str.

Kevin Nute

Opis

This book argues that a widespread assumption of the inherent otherness of Japanese architecture made it not only a test of the universality of Western architectural theories but also a seemingly endless source of inspiration. It is of value to anyone interested in architectural history, Japanese architecture or cultural theory.

Spis treści

Foreword by Kengo Kuma  Preface  A built chimera 1. Three types of otherness 2. The self in the other  3. The other in the self  4. The other in the other  5. The lens of myth  Image credits  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Kevin Nute teaches the history and theory of architecture at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, and is also an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Oregon. He received his architectural training at the University of Nottingham before working in practice in London, Hong Kong and Singapore and earning his PhD at Cambridge. Professor Nute spent his early career in Japan, first as a visiting research scholar at the University of Tokyo and later as an associate professor of architecture at Muroran Institute of Technology. His other books include Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan (2000), Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture (2004), Naturally Animated Architecture (2018), and This Here Now: Japanese Building and the Architecture of the Individual (2020).