Zen Architecture: The Building Process as Practice

by Alexandra Quinn and Paul Discoe

Paul Discoe was in on the ground floor of Zen architecture in the United States. In the 1960s he became a student of Zen Buddhism, studying and building at the Tassajara complex in northern California. His own wood-based Zen-Buddhism architectural structures and renovations in the United States and Europe are the focus of this book. With passionate prose, Discoe identifies the elements of Buddhism that are represented in his buildings and describes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1423600096
• ISBN13: 9781423600091
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.0"