Japan and the West as well as archival documentation

as well as archival documentation

and political aims to shed new light on this electrifying period

Jackson’s dedication to capturing its constant shape shifting – stillness to thundering force

Fantasy and imagination always also played a strong part

Japan and the West as well as archival documentationThis book discusses the architectural influence that Japan and the West have had on each other during the last 150 years. While the recent histories of Western and Japanese architecture have been well recorded, they have rarely been interwoven. Based on extensive research, Japan and the West provides a synthetic overview that brings together the main themes of Japanese and Western architecture since 1850 and shows that neither could exist in its