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The contemporary tea house : Japan's top architects redefine a tradition

Title
The contemporary tea house : Japan's top architects redefine a tradition / Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Terunobu Fujimori ; additional text by Kengo Kuma and Hiroshi Hara ; translated by Glenn Rich.
Author
Isozaki, Arata.
Publication
Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, 2007.

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  • Ando, Tadao.
  • Fujimori, Terunobu, 1946-
Description
134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm
Summary
"The tea house is one of Japan's most original and significant architectural forms - a small, simple space for the tea ceremony that traditionally requires a hearth, straw-mat flooring, and a low entrance. It has been called the spiritual fountainhead of modern Japanese architecture." "The Contemporary Tea House features twenty works that reveal how world-renowned Japanese architects are redefining this highly formalized and tradition-bound form using materials as disparate as charcoal, plastic, and titanium." "Directed at both the general reader and the specialist, this visually stunning book explores the works of five masters of modern Japanese architecture. The informative text is illuminated with photographs, and numerous diagrams and sketches."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN
  • 9784770030467
  • 4770030460
LCCN
  • 2007006900
  • 99819115233
OCLC
  • 84838737
  • ocm84838737
  • SCSB-5385578
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Columbia University Libraries