Posts tagged "simplicity"
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
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....
Delusioning Barcelona Chair
There is a chair that changes the air of the room completely by just placing it. The Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe is such a chair. Innovative structure and form, elegant and cool. This chair,the top of a modern furniture, has a coolness and loneliness that refuses someone to sit. (* Barcelona...
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...
