抄録
Ralph Adams Cram's architectural book, “Impressions of Japanese Architecture”, reflects his view and appreciation of 7-12 centuries Japanese temples and shrines, which style logically developed from the exigencies of wooden construction, and his idea against Westernization in Japan. Its subject matter was actually understood as a close resemblance to the architectural ideal advocated by “The Craftsman” magazine in the American Arts and Crafts Movement, reflecting an ideological Western architectural trend, a return to honesty and simplicity in construction. In this architectural journal, after 1910s, the texts of Japanese architecture in Cram's “Impressions” became even associated with the Organic Architecture, in the seeking of American national and future style.
