{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-japan-museum-of-modern-art-1955","title":"The Architecture of Japan — Museum of Modern Art, 1955","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"123\" data-end=\"1226\"\u003ePublished in 1955 by MoMA as part of its influential series on world architecture, \u003cem data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"233\"\u003eThe Architecture of Japan\u003c\/em\u003e introduced Western audiences to the formal and spiritual logic of Japanese building traditions. The book is a key artifact of mid-century American modernism’s fascination with Japanese aesthetics, promoted by figures like Philip Johnson and Pietro Belluschi, whose names appear in the museum’s Committee on Architecture. The cover—gridlocked and minimal, with a cropped image of a temple screen—foreshadows the book’s own tension between surface and depth. Inside, it surveys temples, shrines, gardens, and vernacular structures with a focus on geometry, ritual, and the poetics of material. This is not a Japanese publication but a Western lens attempting reverence—MoMA’s projection of order onto what it sees as spiritual clarity. Its legacy is visible in the way architects and designers from Charlotte Perriand to George Nakashima translated Japanese form into global modernist language. A lucid, early example of institutional cross-cultural framing—part admiration, part appropriation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1665\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1247\" data-end=\"1250\"\u003eTitle: The Architecture of Japan\u003cbr data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1285\"\u003eAuthor \/ Editor: Museum of Modern Art\u003cbr data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1325\"\u003eDate: 1955\u003cbr data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1338\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1376\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with printed dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1433\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 21 × 28.5\u003cbr data-start=\"1459\" data-end=\"1462\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1482\"\u003ePages: approx. 120\u003cbr data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1503\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Museum of Modern Art, New York\u003cbr data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1556\"\u003eLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-5987\u003cbr data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1607\"\u003eCondition: Good, with visible wear to jacket and corners\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52576490586450,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_5_2f734c18-3090-489f-bd49-ffd036d31d9a.jpg?v=1769547554","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/the-architecture-of-japan-museum-of-modern-art-1955","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}