Japanese architecture

is so concerned with the floor that it might be referred to as an 'architecture of the floor' in opposition to that of the West which is best characterized as an 'architecture of the wall.’

Yoshinobu Ashihara to refer to Japanese traditional building as an 'architecture of the floor' in opposition to that of the West which he describes as an 'architecture of the wall'. (Ashihara, 1983) It is undoubtedly the floor that has dominated traditional Japanese architecture while the wall has enjoyed the equivalent dominance in Europe. Yoshinobu Ashihara

is given to creating privacy not by building walls, but via the construction of places from which the world can be viewed-even when the presentation of the outside world is merely an ideal representation rather than the reality.

More than establishing privacy by building walls, the essence of traditional Japanese architecture is the construction of a place from which the world can be viewed-even when the presentation of the outside world is merely an ideal representation rather than the reality. One technique is the enclosure of the outside.

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japanese architecture