Mira Locher is an architect and professor who worked for Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Japan for seven years before setting up an architectural practice in partnership with Takayuki Murakami in the US. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture & Planning at the University of Utah.
Ben Simmons taught photography at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina before relocating to Japan where he opened Ben Simmons Photography, Inc. Recent books include Tokyo Megacity. www.bensimmonsphoto.com
"Designers, architects, artists, and anyone with a love of Japanese
traditional culture will enjoy this book."--Library Journal
"It describes architectural components throughly, exactingly, and
lovely--identifying them all with Japanese terms. Overall, this is
a delightful book of photographs and a useful...guide for
Japanophile architects and designers."--CHOICE
"Mira Locher makes the observation that tradition only exists as an
idea when it is challenged or superseded by the new. In her
first-rate resource book on traditional design you will learn a
great deal about construction methods, in which the use of natural
materials encouraged a responsible attitude toward
conservation."--The Japan Times
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