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Mira Locher is an architect and professor who works in the
U.S. and Japan. She studied at Smith College before receiving her
Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
After working for Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Japan for seven years,
she set up an architectural practice in the U.S. with Takayuki
Murakami. Mira Locher is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the
University of Manitoba (Canada). She is the author of Super Potato
Design, Zen Gardens and Zen Garden Design.
Shunmyo Masuno is the head priest of Kenkohji, a Soto Zen
Buddhist temple in Yokohama, as well as the principal and founder
of Japan Landscape Consultants. He is a graduate of Tamagawa
University and served his garden apprenticeship under the late
Saito Katsuo, He founded Japan Landscape Consultants in 1982 and
has received numerous awards for his landscape and garden designs,
including the prestigious National Grand Prize from the Japanese
Institute of Landscape Architecture. He is a professor at Tama Art
University and teaches and lectures internationally. Masuno is the
author of more than 100 books on the practice and teachings of Zen
Buddhism, as well as garden design and landscape architecture.
A native of Nagano-ken, Terunobu Fujimori is an
architectural historian and architect and serves as the director of
the Edo-Tokyo History Museum. He received his Ph.D. in
architectural history at Tokyo University and is emeritus professor
at Tokyo University and specially-appointed professor at Kogakuin
University. Fujimori has authored numerous books on modern
architecture, city planning, street observation, teahouses, and
gardens. His architectural projects include the Nira House (Leek
House), which won the Japan Art Grand Prix, and the Kumamoto
Prefectural Agricultural University Dormitory, for which Fujimori
received the prestigious Architectural Institute of Japan Award. He
also designs and constructs "free-style" teahouses, including
Takasugi-an, and others in Australia, Taiwan, Germany, England,
Dubai, Denmark, and India.
"…a deeper dive into Masunos design process and ideas, so if you're
after something that's instructional as well as inspirational then
this is [an] option for you." -- Flowers Across Melbourne blog
"The text is superb--very complex thoughts written in an almost
readily understandable fashion, and most enjoyable to read. And the
illustrations are even better--assisted, I am certain, by the
quality of the gardens being illustrated." --Shakkei Journal
"[Masuno's] ideas and design process, which are fundamental to his
daily Zen practice and teachings, are explored through photographs,
drawings and descriptive narrative." --ABC Gardening Australia
magazine
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