Work
Katsura Imperial Villa
Explore in the Atlas →A seventeenth-century princely retreat whose modular sukiya pavilions, shifting-view stroll garden and refined restraint became a touchstone of Japanese spatial sensibility and a lodestar for modernists from Taut to Gropius.
Dwelling Ephemerality Ritual
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Kyoto, Japan
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experienceAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Apprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- East asian
Connections
- exemplifies Japanese Sukiya Architecture
Sources
- Arata Isozaki. Katsura Imperial Villa. Phaidon, 2004.
- Kenzo Tange and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture. Yale University Press, 1960.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Katsura Imperial Villa." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/katsura-imperial-villa/. Accessed July 17, 2026.