A lavishly illustrated survey of Japanese buildings and gardens from early pit dwellings to contemporary houses, by Arthur Drexler, Curator of the Museum's Department of Architecture and Design, will be published by the Museum of Modern Art on July 15.
Written in an informative, lively style and illustrated with fine photographs, THE ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN is for people interested in Japanese culture and history and in modern Western art as well as for professionals who will find the carpenters' details, cross sections of roof framing, plans, and other unusual material of special interest. As Mr. Drexler points out in the preface, the importance of Japan's architectural tradition to contemporary Western building is well known, but only recently has the West developed effects common to Japanese architecture, at least since the eighth century.
Photographs of teahouses, temples, castles, treasure houses, and shrines, among them the first authorized pictures of the great Shinto shrine at Ise (which has been rebuilt 59 times in the past 1200 years and will be rebuilt again in 1970), are included along with a readable text giving the historical, cultural, and environmental background that has deeply influenced Japanese buildings.
This special book comes from the estate of Oscar winner Jack Palance.
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