Posts tagged "modernism"
Katsura Imperial Villa – Genealogy of Simple
Modern design is simply a simple design. Simple means that colors, shapes and materials are restrained. Simple is not a modernist patent. It is not limited to architecture and product design. Where did the value of simplicity come from? What is that concrete appearance? In the series “Genealogy of Simple”, we explore various aspects of...
Japan in Architecture : Genealogies of Its Transformation
Interior space of the National Treasure tea room Tai-an by Sen no Rikyū from “Japan in Architecture : Genealogies of Its Transformation” (April 25-September 17, 2018 @ Mori Art Museum) The architect and architect historian Fujimori Terunobu says the basic strength of Japanese architects in wooden construction. Contrarily to the Western architecture which developed stone...
Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~
”Japan was ahead of modernism hundreds of years than the West, in the middle of the Muromachi era(1336 – 1573), it already valued the beauty of simplicity ” (Jun Hara, “White” 2008) The similarity of Japan’s values and modernism which both respects simplicity, is a great concern for Japan who imported modernism. Concerning the eyes...