Temple and Teahouse in Japan
by Werner Blaser
Birkhäuser, October 2021 (New edition)

Hardcover (also available in paperback) | 9-1/4 x 12 inches | 172 pages | English (also available in German) | ISBN: 9783035623499 | 78?

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th- and 18th-century wooden buildings document minimalist, grid-based structures using stark black-and-white photographs, some color photographs and numerous line drawings. His book, highly prized in terms of design and content, contributed significantly to introducing Japanese aesthetics to Western architecture, art and graphics. Mies van der Rohe, for example, gave it to many of his friends. The reprint is enriched by a text on the history of the book by Christian Blaser, Werner Blaser's son, a contribution by Inge Andritz on Mies van der Rohe and Japanese architecture, and a personal afterword by Tadao Ando.
Werner Blaser (1924-2019), architect; Inge Andritz, Mies specialist; Tadao Ando, Pritzker laureate; Christian W. Blaser, architect.
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Swiss-born architect, author, and photographer Werner Blaser (1924?2019) made more than one hundred books in his lifetime ? 108 according to the German-language Wikipedia. (Oddly, for someone with such a prolific output and many books translated into English, no Wikipedia page for him exists in English.) H...