JAPANESE CONSTRUCTION ANNUALS - Lot 125

JAPANESE CONSTRUCTION ANNUALS Years 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1955 Tokyo, Shimizu-gumi, 305x245mm, 100 to 200 p. depending on the year, bound in publisher's full gray cloth, consisting mainly of photographic plates and a few color plates. Presentation of the year's constructions by the Shimizu firm in Japan: public and private buildings, department stores, hosts, hospitals, stadiums and more. Shimizu-gumi (Shimizu Kensetsu Kabushiki-gaisha) is one of Japan's oldest and most important construction firms, producing a large number of monuments and buildings, including the famous Yoyogi stadium designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Summer Olympics. Alongside more traditional or neoclassical public buildings, a modernist trend is clearly emerging, especially for private villas, influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and the European avant-gardes initiated by Antonin Raymond, the Corbusians Maekawa and Sakakura and the achievements of the Bauhaus. Architects: Sutemi Horiguchi; Toshiro Yamashita; Gumpei Matsuda; Antonin Raymond; Tôgo Murano; Kôsaku Matsumoto; Jin Watanabe; Kenzo Tangé; Kunio Maekawa; Junzo Sakakura; Yoshida Isoya, ;Togo Murano, among others. Set of 6 volumes in very good condition (101065)