Perfected by the Tea Masters
Fredric Jameson: Japan-ness, 5 April 2007
Japan-ness in Architecture
by Arata Isozaki, translated by Sabu Kohso.
MIT, 349 pp., £19.95, July 2006,0 262 09038 4 Show More
by Arata Isozaki, translated by Sabu Kohso.
MIT, 349 pp., £19.95, July 2006,
“... The three-stage process [of the building of the Katsura Imperial Villa] is perfectly discernible in the layout of the buildings as they survive. Beginning from the Ko-shoin with its celebrated Moon-Viewing Platform (tsukimi-dai) of bamboo, the Chū -shoin and the Gakki-no-ma were added, and finally the Shin-goten. All rooms face the pond at a uniform angle, whilst successively set back from right to left (as viewed from the pond ... ”