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Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture
Yasuhiro Ishimoto · 1960 · 造型社 / Yale University Press
About the book
Katsura Imperial Villa photographed as modernist architecture: lines, planes and emptiness.
Publication
- Author
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
- Category
- Photobook
- Original title
- 桂 日本建築における伝統と創造
- Original language
- Japanese
- First edition
- 1960, 造型社 / Yale University Press, Tokyo / New Haven
- Later editions and translations
- Texts by Kenzo Tange and Walter Gropius; followed by Katsura Villa: Space and Form in 1983.
- Date precision
- Sources give the year only
Sources
Written by the FilmAnalysis editors; facts follow the sources above, the reading of the pictures is ours.