THE MODERN JAPANESE HOUSE: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
Hiroshi Sasaki [Editor]
Hiroshi Sasaki [editor]: THE MODERN JAPANESE HOUSE: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd. and Japan Publications, Inc., 1970. First edition. Quarto. Maroon cloth titled in gold. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Printed endpapers. 224 pp. 230 black and white gravure photographs, 7 color plates. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Colorful jacket lightly rubbed, but a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
8.5 x 12 hard cover book with 224 pages and 7 color plates and 230 black and white gravure photographs. This volume spotlights 44 residential projects by 27 of Japan's leading modern architects, circa 1970. The author was editor of PROCESS: ARCHITECTURE.
Abridged Contents
- Introduction
- Trends in Current Residential Architecture
- The Unique Japanese House
Architects include Osamu Murai, Isoya Yoshida, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Motto Take, Sutemi Horiguchi, Masachika Murata, Takeshi Usukura, The Hitokani Architectural Design Office, Junzo Yoshimura, Masamitsu Nagashima, Hiroshi Sasaki, Yoshiro Taniguchi, Kazuo Shinohara, Antonin and Noemi P. Raymond, Hajime Shimizu, Junzo Sakakura, Kenzo Tange, Kiyonori Kikutake, The Sugisaka Architectural Office, The Design Section of the Takenaka Komuten Co., Ltd., Kuni'ichi Hikotani, Ryoichi Fukuda, Takashi Sugiyama, Kazuo Shinohara, Mayumi Miyawaki and Associated Architects, Susumu Takasuga, Kiyoshi Seike and Masami Sato among others.