Author in Architecture: Yasufumi Nakamori, Ph.D.
Thursday, Apr 21, 20113 AMEDT
| 315 Capitol, Suite 120 Houston, TX
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Authors in Architecture April Edition
KATSURA: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture; Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro
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Author Yasufumi Nakamori, Ph.D.
Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture; Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro revisits a book of photographs of an elegant Seventeenth Century imperial villa in Kyoto, that interestingly foreshadows Western modernist design. In the original publication, contemporary and modernist architect Tange Kenzo (with Walter Gropius, who authored the Herbert Bayer–designed book from 1960) extensively altered the vision of Ishimoto, a fledgling photographer, by drastically cropping the images to better align them with Bauhaus aesthetics, and to reinforce his own position in postwar Japanese debates on the relation of the modern to tradition. In this astutely, impeccably produced catalogue, Nakamori importantly rehabilitates Ishimoto’s initial vision of Katsura, reproducing his original, perfectly stunning photographs. The catalogue received a 2011 Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award for Smaller Exhibitions from the College Art Association. (Published by Houston: Museum of F
ine Arts/Yale University Press 2010)
Yasufumi Nakamori, Ph.D. is Assistant Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
April’s Authors in Architecture is presented in coordination with the exhibit Parallel Nippon: Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996 – 2006, currently on view at Architecture Center Houston through April 22, 2010.
6pm – Author's Presentation with Reception and Book Signing
Architecture Center Houston
315 Capitol, Suite 120
Houston, Texas 77002
Debuting in January 2009, Authors in Architecture is a collaboration between the Houston Public Library Downtown and the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH). Our aim is to create a dialogue between these two cultural centers and their patrons. This series is free and open to the public.
Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) is a collaboration of AIA Houston and the Architecture Center Houston Foundation.
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