Japanese Contemporary Architecture -Meiji - Sergio Duran


		Meiji - Jidai

	Restoration Period Architecture: 1868 — 1912
	Bakufu Jidai (1192-1867) Government of the Tent (Characterized by the closing of borders and foreign trade) Tokugawa Period of Shogun Power Capital Cities EDO - (1603-1868) Edo (Tokyo) - Mito / Nikko — Nagoya — Wakayama — Tosa — Choshu — Hizen - Satsuma Iaesu Tokugawa (Shogun) Established the Tokugawa Ideology Schools Shinto Mitsukuni Branch or Daimio of the Tokugawa Shogunate (Writes the Dai Nihon Shi 1715) 243 volumes Destroys all but the oldest Buddhist temples and replaces them with the Shinto Shrine. Commodore Perry 1854 Lands in Japan Perry comments on the structure and architectural detailing of the reception pavilion where he is received Japanization Ideas from abroad are transformed, refined and absorbed into Japanese life Thomas James Waters (surveyor) 1863 - 1864 Glover Residence Nagasaki 1863 Takebashi Barracks 1870-1874 Kuniteru Wood block Print Shimizu: Tsukiji Hotel for Foreigners 1867-68 Shimizu: First Mitsui Bank Kunimasa British Consulate Yokohama 1868 Tateishi: Kaichi Primary School (Matsumoto, Nagano) 1876 Shimizu: Second Mitsui Bank Tokyo 1874 Restoration 1868 - 1912 Japan enacts National policy to modernize Modernization becomes synonymous with Westernization Hiroshige Wood Block Prints Industrialization, Modernization, Westernization Yokohama Port (Gaijin) Foreigners Commission and Construction of major Public Buildings: Josiah Conder (1852 - 1920) 1877 arrives in Japan (age 25) Old Ueno Imperial Museum 1882 (at age of 30) Mitsubishi Building 1894 Mitsui Club (Tsunomachi) Naval Ministry 1894 Professor at Tokyo Imperial University (Kingo Tatsuno, Tokuma Katayama) disciples Iwasaki Villa Tokyo 1889 Hokkaido Colonization Agency Ende, Bockmann Proposals Imperial Diet Building 1887 Parliament & Imperial Grounds 1887 Hibiya Park Public Garden (ringed by Ministries) 1887 General Plan of Tokyo 1914 Kingo Tatsuno College of Engineering Tokyo Imperial University 1888 Bank of Japan Tokyo 1890-96 Tokyo Station Marunouchi Tokyo 1911-1914 Tokuma Katayama Kyoto Imperial Museum Kyoto 1895 Hyokeikan Ueno Tokyo 1901-09 Akasaka Detached Palace 1899-1909 Kozo Takahara: Kabukiza Theater Tokyo 1889 Ende Bockmann: Ministry of Justice Tokyo 1895 National Supreme Court 1896 Materials Stone / Concrete New Building Types Schools, Banks, Hotels, Museums Japanese Architects Study Abroad Katayama Detached Imperial Palace1909 (French inspired) Bank of Japan Osaka 1903 Eclecticism Wakon Yosai — of Japanese Spirit Benefiting from western technology Teikan Yoshiki Imperial Crown Style (Imperial Western Style) favored by the Nationalist (facist) Shin Ichiro Okada 1883 — 1932 Kabuki Theater 1924 Chuta Ito (Critic / Architect) 1867 — 1954 Soldiers Hall 1934 Tsukiji Hongan ji 1935 Hitoshi Watanabe 1887 1973 Tokyo Imperial Museum Ueno 1937 Masamichi Kuru: The Phoenix Hall Hoo Den (Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893) Bunzo Yamaguchi (Gropious) Chikatada Kurata (Gropious) Takamasa Yoshizaka (Corbu) Junzo Sakakura (Corbu) Japanese Pavilion Paris Expo1937 Kunyo Maekawa (Corbu) F. L. Wright Imperial Hotel Tokyo 1923 Yamamura House Ashiya 1924 Antonin Raymond 1924 Disciple of Wright Bruno Taut 1880 —1938 (Houses and People of Japan - Writings on Ise, Katsura) 1933 — 1936 in Japan Watanabe Hitoshi (Fascism) Dai Ichi Insurance Co. Building 1938

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Japanese Contemporary Architecture