Artworks

Okada residence, Ōmori

Artwork · Sutemi Horiguchi · 1934 · building

The best-known prewar design of Sutemi Horiguchi (1895–1984), leader of the Secessionist Architectural Society (Bunriha) and friend of Mendelsohn, Gropius and Oud: two traditional tatami rooms placed beside a Western-style living room, each with its own view of the garden — modernist ideas brought round to the practical simplicity of shoin architecture. No longer extant. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 349–350, fig. 407. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.