Architecture & Built Environment · Architectural History
A topic within Architectural History, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Edward S. Morse
A detailed illustrated account of traditional Japanese domestic architecture and daily life within it, arguing its spatial flexibility and construction logic offered real lessons for Western designers.
Ralph Adams Cram
Japanese architecture achieves its refinement through structural honesty, modular proportion and restraint, principles an American architect argues the West had yet to rediscover for itself.
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