| | |  | For Your Home & Garden | Home » » The Japanese House: Architecture and Interiors | | | | | | | Description: | | The simple beauty of Japanese architecture and design has inspired many of the world's top architects and designers, such as Bruno Taut, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Terence Conran, to name just a few. The grace and elegance of the Japanese sensibility is reflected in both modern and traditional Japanese homes, from their fluid floor plans to their use of natural materials. In The Japanese House, renowned Japanese photographer Noboru Murata has captured this Eastern spirit with hundreds of vivid color photographs of 15 Japanese homes. As we step behind the lens with Murata, we're witness to the unique Japanese aesthetic, to the simple proportions modeled after the square of the tatami mat; to refined, rustic decor; to earthy materials like wood, paper, straw, ceramics, and textiles. This is a glorious house-tour readers can return to again and again, for ideas, inspiration, or simply admiration. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780804832625
• Condition: New
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Alexandra Black | | Hardcover:
| 216 pages | | Publisher:
| Tuttle Publishing | | Publication Date:
| November 30, 2000 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0804832625 | | Package Length:
| 9.92 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.84 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.87 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 16 reviews |
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 Fantastic look at Japanese homes and buildingsJul 04, 2010
If you ever have visited Japan or fell in love with its architecture via movies or television, you owe it to yourself to get this book.
We plan on building our next home and wanted to go in a modern/Japanese look. There are many resources out there for modern homes but very few done as well as this book for Japanese homes. The subtle details and construction techniques presented in here are vital for a designer to see as they develop a design.
The photographs are very endearing and present the Japanese home in such a way as to make this book more than just a guide. It also makes for a great coffee table book.
If you are into architecture of any type you shouldn't pass this book up for your library.
Highly recommended!
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Beautiful BookJun 21, 2009
I bought this book for my son, who is an architect very into Japanese style, but it was so beautiful, I almost kept it for myself and bought him another one. It's wonderful, buy it.
 Quite goodMay 03, 2009
It is a good book but I would have liked to see more samples of houses to have a more complete overview of how the Japanese architecture has evolved over the years.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Low-budget color printMar 14, 2007
Don't expect much content in textual form. The book is a photo book, and there are many excellent pictures of japanese houses and interiors in terms of themes and photographical skill.
What is totaly contradictory to this, is the poor low-budget color printing chosen by Tuttle publishers. The pictures are devaluated by a easily seen coarse printing sreen.
4 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Pretty pictures, but...Jan 20, 2007
Take the text with a huge grain of salt. It says nothing original about the Japanese aesthetic (terms like "elegant", "minimal" and "harmony with nature" abound); it contradicts itself on a few key points (is the half-height tea-house door for guests, or the host?); and in one caption it identifies a Go board as a "game of mah-jong". Oops.
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