Posts tagged "simplicity"
![Japan in Architecture : Genealogies of Its Transformation Japan in Architecture : Genealogies of Its Transformation](http://zeitgeist.jp/en/files/千利休-茶室-妙喜庵待庵1-290x290.jpg)
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...
![Shogun who found simplicity. Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa Shogun who found simplicity. Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa](http://zeitgeist.jp/en/files/同仁斎_新建築S-290x290.jpeg)
Shogun who found simplicity. Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Genealogy of Simplicity ~ Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa ~ In a way, modern design can be a simple design. According to dictionary word “simple” is “condition of less elements”. Simple means that colors, shapes and materials are simple and restrained. Simple is not a monopolist of modernism. Nor is it limited to architecture or product design....
![Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~ Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~](http://zeitgeist.jp/en/files/wabisabi-modernism-book-inside-290x290.jpg)
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...