'Shofuso and Modernism' Revisits a Major Mid-Century East-West Cultural Exchange

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Autor: archdaily Publicado el: 19/10/2020
'Shofuso and Modernism' Revisits a Major Mid-Century East-West Cultural Exchange

In June 1954, an article published in House & Home magazine read, ?The Japanese had some of our best ideas?300 years ago.? The piece highlighted three main attributes of Kyoto?s Katsura Imperial Villa, built in the 1620s: the open post-and-beam plan, the use of verandas for climate control, and its modularity based on tatami mats and shoji sc...
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