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Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Cover has general wear. Dj has general wear, some tearing on spine. White cloth; Gilt and orange lettering at spine; Red line illustration on front cover; 212 pp.; 2 gatefolds; Profusely illustrated with bw photos and line drawings. Bruno Taut ranks the Ise Shrine with the Parthenon in architectural importance. John Burchard, in his preface, characterizes Ise as "one of the great architectural achievements of history. ... I suppose," he comments, "Ise has many lessons for contemporary architects once they get over being embarrassed by it." Robin Boyd, in his book, 'Kenzo Tange', observes that it was only after the Second World War that the West realized that many qualities of modern architecture were quite old. "These qualities had existed for centuries in Japanese buildings. ... It [Japanese tradition] relied on the use of ingenious construction and untreated natural material to build a sort of refined extension of nature: a… Read More