Directory of Architecture Resources

This category is for Japanese traditional (non-Western)architecture.

Websites in Japanese should be submitted to World: Japanese.

Subcategories

Architecture

http://web-japan.org/webjapan/search/Culture_Architecture_00.html
Examines architecture in Japan influenced by foreign cultures as well as climate; landscape and examples of both traditional and modern architecture including temples, shrines, castles and bridges.
Architecture

http://web-japan.org/museum/arch.html
Historical overview, from early shrines and temples to castles and modern trends.
Chiiori Project

http://www.chiiori.org/
Preserving old thatched roof houses in rural Japan. For people concerned with saving and preserving the kayabuki houses that are being lost at an alarming rate.
Shoin Architecture

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/shoin/mainpage.htm
Illustrated discussion of the development of this Muromachi period style. Well organized.
The Japanese House

http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/410JapHouseTxE1.html
Analysis of traditional Japanese domestic architecture as being based on long standing attitudes towards ideas of harmony. Black and white illustrations on separate pages.
Tondabayashi "The Sugiyama Family's Old House"

http://www.kiis.or.jp/kansaida/tondabayashi/tondabayashi04-e.html
Edo period home of a wealthy sake brewer.
Visual Arts: Architecture

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jp0119)
Article discussing the impact of traditional concepts on modern Japanese architects.

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