Description: This study of Maekawa Kunio (1905-1986) focuses on one of the most distinctive leaders in Japan's modernist architectural community. In a career spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, Maekawa's work and critical writing put him in the vanguard of the Japanese architectural profession. Jonathan Reynolds illuminates Maekawa's role as a bridge between prewar and postwar architecture in Japan, focusing particularly on how he influenced modernism's ambivalence regarding "tradition" and contemporary practice and the importance of technology in modernist design and ideology. Maekawa studied architecture at Tokyo Imperial University before moving to Paris in 1928 to work with Le Corbusier. The latter experience had a powerful impact on Maekawa; he became an advocate for Le Corbusier and modernism when he returned to Japan two years later. Throughout his career Maekawa designed residential, commercial, and government buildings in Japan and abroad. He became well known internationally for his approach to public architecture, especially museums and public spaces such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall. Numerous illustrations complement discussions of Maekawa's principal projects. Reynolds's book will attract readers interested in twentieth-century Japan, for in addition to highlighting Maekawa's architectural career, Reynolds portrays the broader cultural context within which Maekawa and other Japanese architects and artists sought to be heard and recognized.
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Publication Name: Maekawa Kunio and Japanese Modernist Architecture
Item Length: 10in.
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Architecture
Publication Year: 2001
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.2in.
Author: Jonathan M. Reynolds
Item Width: 8.5in.
Item Weight: 51.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
