A Japanese aesthetic sensibility centered on imperfection, impermanence and the beauty of natural aging: weathered wood, textured plaster, visible wear. Applied in contemporary architecture, it stands as a counterpoint to polished, machine-perfect modernist surfaces, and is often associated with architects working in a restrained, materially honest idiom, Tadao Ando among them.
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Formulated Year1994 dates Leonard Koren's book, credited by this source with becoming a touchstone for designers of all stripes and bringing wabi-sabi into Western design discourse; the underlying Japanese aesthetic is centuries older, tracing in this same source to Murata Juko's tea-ceremony reforms around 1500. Domain
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Wikimedia FoundationWabi-sabi, Influence upon the West, The arts section
Designer Leonard Koren (born 1948) published Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (1994), a study of wabi-sabi that contrasts it with Western ideals of beauty.
- Wikipedia: Wabi-sabi
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