Title & Author:

Kazuo Shinohara : traversing the house and the city / edited by Seng Kuan.

Publication:

Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers ; [Cambridge, Massachusetts] : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, [2021]
©2021

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 21 x 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Thoughts on seven houses I have visited / Christian Kerez -- The small Japanese house / Seng Kuan -- Variations on the square: Shinohara's umbrella house / Ken Tadashi Oshima -- Shinohara Kazuo & Asakura Setsu exhibition -- What is design? a roundtable -- The meaning of writing: agitation and pronouncement / Okuyama Shin-ichi -- Architectural photography: reading Taki Kōji / Ano Daici -- Interview with Nomiyama Gyōji -- "Translating" Shinohara: Kunstform, style, and the logic of Aufhebung / David B. Stewart -- Shinohara Kazuo's travel photos -- Interview with Tanikawa Shuntarō -- Interview with Ōtsuji Seiko and Ōtsuji Tetsuo -- ModernNext / Shinohara Kazuo -- Shinohara's contrasts / Tsukamoto Yoshiharu -- Interview with Rem Koolhaas -- Sloping ground: the styles of Shinohara at Tanikawa House and House in Tateshina / Shiozaki Taishin -- Three exhibitions / Angela Y. Pang.

Summary:

Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) created sublimely beautiful, purist houses that have reconfigured and enriched our understanding of domesticity, tradition, structure, scale, nature, and the city. The underlying formalism in Shinohara's architecture lends his work a poetic quality that fuses simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected. More than anyone else he laid the foundations for the rigor and vitality of architecture in Japan today. In placing Shinohara's later, institutional-scale works of the Fourth Style, which have been overlooked until now, alongside the iconic houses of his earlier career, this book establishes the architect's insistence on the equivalation between the house and the city. New scholarly essays, interviews with clients and collaborators, and translations of Shinohara's key texts are complemented by previously unpublished archival drawings and personal travel photographs by Shinohara. Reframing his architectural achievements in terms of his oeuvre as a whole, this volume situates them in the broader cultural and social context in Japan and globally. The aesthetic values he espoused and promoted with singular conviction appear more insightful and germane than ever. - Back cover.

ISBN:

9783037785331 (hardbound)
3037785330

Subject:

Shinohara, Kazuo, 1925-2006 Criticism and interpretation.
Shinohara, Kazuo, 1925-2006
Shinohara, kazuo(1925- )
Architecture, Japanese 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic Japan 20th century.
Architecture japonaise 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Japanese
Architecture, Domestic Japan History 20th century.
Japan

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Shinohara, Kazuo, 1925-2006, architect.
Kuan, Seng, editor.
Mostafavi, Mohsen, writer of foreword.
Kuan, Seng editor.
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Traversing the house and the city

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309321
Call No.: BIB 254593
Status: Available