Japanese architecture is one with the natural. Few architectural styles remain faithful to their aesthetics for so long, and the Japanese gives a chair in this area; It was not until the mid -nineteenth century that globalized styles were integrated into its so characteristic wooden architecture, columns, trabes and two waters. We are facing one of the most beautiful, iconic and functional architectures in the history of design, since its structure had no need to be transformed until several centuries.
The sensitivity with which the Japanese built His temples and homes tell us about his ancestral wisdom And, above all, the respect that nature inspired them, to such a degree of wanting to melt with it. But, with such a recognized style, the presentations are left over.
Japanese architecture was strongly influenced by China.Redd F / UNSPLASH
Birth of Japanese architecture
The iconic Japanese architecture we know is actually A mixture of oriental styles. The constructions adopted the aesthetics of Chinese architecture when the nation of Japan came into contact with the Han dynastyin the 300 B years from there, the semi -buried Japanese housing, with raised lands and palm roof were transformed into imposing buildings, although gradually. Traditional Japanese architecture It was divided into five periods: from Osaka and Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo.
The architecture of the Osaka and Nara period bears that name for its homonymous regions, and is known by the construction of sanctuaries and temples under the Buddhist religion. For the period Heian, The constructions migrated to the mountains or regions remote from the cities. Until that time, the buildings were mostly religious, but in the Kamakura Typologies with military and social enclosures were diversified, such as tea houses. The renovations continued until Azuchi-Momoyama With great castles. And finally, in the Edo The surrounding landscape architecture To buildings.