Why am I passionate about this?
I've spent the last three decades thinking about Japanese aesthetics, and in particular if and how they can be meaningfully used beyond Japan. I'm the author of several books on the subject: Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan, Place Time and Being in Japanese Architecture, This Here Now: Japanese Building and the Architecture of the Individual, and most recently, The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind. I teach about Asian Pacific architecture at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa.
Kevin's book list on Japanese aesthetics
Why did Kevin love this book?
This book was far ahead of its time in explaining the active manipulation of space and time in traditional Japanese gardens, from the diminutive tsuboniwa courtyard gardens that transported the city dweller to the heart of the wilderness, to the temple gardens that procured remote features of the natural landscape.
1 author picked Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Photographs highlight this study of the history and creation of the Japanese courtyard borrowed-landscape gardens
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