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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: World observation
    sub title: empire, architecture and the global archive of Itō Chūta
  name:
    name part: Mullane, Matthew
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867-1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters. In his mission to integrate Japan into existing world histories, legitimate Japanese colonial expansion, and train observers to see the world in the way that he did, Itō theorized new kinds of "observation" (kansatsu) in writing and drawing that strategically blended epistemological values from European science, philosophy and anthropology with Japanese Buddhism, folklore and naturalism. World Observation presents close readings of Itō's writings, sketches and designs to cast new light on a key figure in the architectural history of Imperial Japan and situate his contributions within the sweep of global architectural history across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  note: Matthew Mullane.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Itō, Chūta
      name part: 1867-1954
  subject:
    topic: Architects
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Architectural drawing
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Architectural writing
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 1868-
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  classification: NA1559.I82 M85 2025
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Culture and politics of the built environment
  identifier: 0822948443
  identifier: 9780822948445
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240706
    record change date: 20260803203412.2
    record identifier: in00005663360