Maekawa Kunio And The Emergence Of Japanese Modernist Architecture by Jonathan M. Reynolds Art History & Criticism antique map (upper left corner manuscripts antique map (upper left corner chipped this groundbreaking volume provides an overview of the development of the art's styles and meanings in the context of the region's social history Jonathan Reynolds illuminates Maekawa's role as a bridge between prewar and postwar architecture in Japan focusing particularly on how he influenced modernism's ambivalence regarding "tradition" and contemporary practice and the importance of technology in modernist design and ideology