The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind

Demonstrates how generations of Western designers have recognized in Japanese art and architecture essentially what they wanted to see, in order to advance their own theoretical agendas Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings and a colour plate Includes discussion of the work of Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Gunter Nitschke and Heinrich Engel, Mies van der Rohe, Antonin Raymond, Frank Lloyd Wright to name but a few