The Rose and the Chrysanthemum: Japanese Influence on NW Architecture
Saturday, August 9, 2008 Architectural Heritage Center |
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A craze for all things Japanese swept the United States in the last part of the 19th century, and as usual Portland was a little late in coming to the party, but by about 1910 Japanese influence in Portland houses began to be noticeable. The Arts and Crafts movement was highly indebted to the Japanese aesthetic, as is reflected to greater or lesser degree in all of our tens of thousands of craftsman bungalows.
Surprisingly, given the tensions of the war years, Japanese influence was perhaps even stronger in the development of Mid-Century Modern style in the 1950s, and it continues to the present day. Come join architectural historians Jack Bookwalter and Robert Jordan to learn about the origins and the depth of Portland’s debt to the architectural aesthetic of our trans-Pacific neighbor.
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