From Shinto to Ando: Studies in Architectural Anthropology in Japan

By Günter Nitschke and Günter Nitschke

Book Overview

This thorough and meticulous study of Japanese architecture is based on thirty years of field research by the architect and urban planner, Gunter Nitschke. A major anthropological survey, it traces the imperial, religious and domestic architecture in connection with the rituals and rites of Japanese society from Shinto to the modern day in the form of architecture by the renowned Tadao Ando.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854902911
• ISBN13: 9781854902917
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.5" x 0.3" x 3.6"