The new Japanese Terrace provides a contemporary revision of the Japanese Garden space housed in the previous Architecture building, through the use of paving stones; repositioning of the lantern and stone tables; and Japanese species planting.
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The Japanese Garden
The Japanese Garden was a tsubo-niwa or courtyard garden of irregular shape. Dating back to the Fifteenth Century, when merchants would create gardens in the open spaces between their houses and storage buildings.
By relocating the Garden adjacent to the Japanese Room students and visitors to the new building are able to see at first hand the important relationship between Japanese interior and exterior spaces.