JAPANESE CREATIVITY

What lies at the root of Japanese creativity and its architectural artifacts? In his new book, the Japanese architect Yuichiro Edagw a explores this question in detail. By analyzing a wide variety of unique exemplary buildings from the sixth century to the present, he determines twelve distinctive characteristics of Japanese architectural creativity and composition, including: intimacy with nat ure, importance of materials, bipolarity and diversity, asymmetry, devotion to small space, and organic form. The key understanding, which p...[Read more]