John Barr
 

The Naka Incineration Plant Hiroshima illustrates Japan's movement from a pre-modern, feudal, society to a post-modern, consumer society.

Between 1932 and 1962 Yasujiro Ozu made a series of films that provide a slice of Tokyo life during the arrival of Modernism in Japan.

The Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices (1958) offered a radical new vision of what Japanese public buildings might be.

The background to the Hiroshima Peace Centre hardly needs to be explained: the first use of the Atomic Bomb and the deaths of over 200,000.

The International House of Japan reflects the changed realities for Japan after WWII.

The widow of Japanese Architect Kiyonori Kikutake has described different facets of her husband's personality, one gentle and reflective.

Sabi is an important concept in Japanese aesthetics that can be difficult to grasp because there is no directly equivalent word in English.

In the 20th century Katsura Imperial Villa became a kind of touchstone for the essence of Japanese architecture.

The Golden Temple in Kyoto is viewed through the eyes of the psychopathic arsonist of Yushio Mishima's novel.

An examination of Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki's essay In'ei Raisan (In Praise of Shadows).

For Japanese architects, 1933 was a pivotal year in their search for a Japanese modernism.

The Akatsuka House is perhaps the only example of architecture making a political statement in Japan.

Are we still indulging in 19th century Exoticism and Orientalism in our view of Japan and Japanese architecture?