In June 1954, an article published in House & Home magazine read, “The Japanese had some of our best ideas—300 years ago.” The piece highlighted three main attributes of Kyoto’s Katsura Imperial Villa, built in the 1620s: the open post-and-beam plan, the use of verandas for climate control, and its modularity based on tatami mats and shoji screens.
Natalia Torija Nieto
Architecture and design writer trained in modern art, design, and material culture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working on a book on the architectural work of George Nakashima.
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'Shofuso and Modernism' Revisits a Major Mid-Century East-West Cultural Exchange
https://www.archdaily.com/949720/shofuso-and-modernism-revisits-a-major-mid-century-east-west-cultural-exchangeNatalia Torija Nieto