Kindai kenchikushi zushū
Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai • 1954 • Shōkokusha
- Author
- Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai
- First published
- 1954
- Publisher
- Shōkokusha
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The Kindai kenchikushi zushū, published in 1954 by the Architectural Institute of Japan (Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai) and released through Shōkokusha, represents a seminal effort to document the modernization of Japanese architecture. As Japan entered the post-war recovery era, there was an urgent intellectual need to codify and analyze the rapid stylistic shifts that occurred following the Meiji Restoration, providing a scholarly foundation for a generation of architects navigating the intersection of traditional craft and Western industrial influence.
The volume serves as a visual and technical chronicle of this transitional period, curated by members of the Institute to capture the structural evolution of public and private buildings throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection was designed as a comprehensive reference guide, emphasizing archival clarity and historical accuracy. It was received by the architectural community as an essential, authoritative survey that helped define the canon of Japanese modernism for subsequent decades of study and practice.
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