Josiah Conder

Josiah Conder (1852-1920) was one of the most internationally influential?British architects of his time. This book provides the first scholarly biography of Conder, detailing?his?remarkable family background, his?achievements?as an architect?and his?unparalleled immersion into Japanese life. It?also includes a full gazetteer of Conder's 120 built and unbuilt projects in Japan, as well as reproductions of his watercolours and other drawings. Conder first arrived in Japan in 1876 to take up the position of Professor of Architecture at the Imperial Institute of Engineering in Tokyo.?He?subsequently?transformed architectural practice in Japan and designed many important buildings there, including the most famous 19th-century Japanese building, the Rokumeikan (1883), which gave its name to an era and is still a fixture in the cultural memory of Japan.?His work also had a?significant?impact in?Britain through his books on Japan: Conder's work on Japan's gardens set off a Japanese garden boom in Britain and his book about Kawanabe?Kyosai probably made?Kyosai?the most famous Japanese artist in Britain at the time.