Mirei Shigemori - Rebel in the Garden:  Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture
Christian Tschumi
Birkhäuser, August 2020 (2nd revised edition)

Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 13 inches | 204 pages | 350 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3035621754 | $57.99
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Mirei Shigemori had a major impact on the development of Japanese landscape architecture in the twentieth century. Active from the 1920s, he founded the Kyoto Garden Society in 1932. In 1939 he designed his own first masterpiece, the garden at the main hall of the Tôfuku-ji temple. From then on he designed 240 gardens all over Japan until his death in 1975; amongst the most famous are the Tenrai-an tea garden (1969) and the Matsuo Taisha garden (1975). The main characteristic of his gardens is that they respect tradition and, at the same time, depart from conventional paradigms by opening up to the influence of Western modernism with its own language. The first part of the book covers Shigemori?s life and factors that influenced his work. The second part contains a detailed illustration of 17 gardens. The book is published as a new and revised edition. Christian Tschumi is an independent landscape architect who designs a wide range of open spaces and is active as a publisher and juror.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
Crisis, as they say, breeds opportunity. For Mirei Shigemori, the great Japanese garden designer born in 1896, it was a typhoon that hit Kyoto on September 21...