Kazuo Shinohara The Umbrella House Project
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- Condition
- EAN
- 9783945852552
- ISBN
- 9783945852552
- Package Dimensions LxWxH
- 9.88x7.24x0.28 Inches
- Weight
- 0.85 Pounds
- Type
- Does not apply
- MPN
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- Model
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- Brand
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- Book Title
- Kazuo Shinohara: the Umbrella House Project
- Publisher
- Vitra Design Museum Gmbh
- Item Length
- 9.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Architecture
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 13.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vitra Design Museum Gmbh
ISBN-10
3945852552
ISBN-13
9783945852552
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12058361667
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kazuo Shinohara: the Umbrella House Project
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
9.9 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Umbrella House would have been worthy of its own case study before the events of 2019, but the circumstances of moving the house add a layer that makes this book very much of this moment, when far too many important 20th-century buildings in Japan are meeting the wrecking ball.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
720.92
Synopsis
The story of Shinohara s exquisite modernist gem, a residential home drawing on Japanese vernacular and religious architecture Built in Tokyo in 1961, the Umbrella House is the smallest residential home created by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara. More than 60 years later, a stroke of good fortune made it possible to save the Umbrella House from demolition and move it to a new location, where it now stands on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The wooden house s post-and-beam construction references traditional Japanese domestic and temple architecture. Experts from Japan and Europe supervised the dismantling of the house in Tokyo and its reassembly in Weil am Rhein. This concise volume traces the long journey of the Umbrella House, in lavish illustrations including impressions from 1960s Japan, architectural designs and plans, and photographs documenting its dismantling and reassembly at its new location. Texts by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Shin-ichi Okuyama and David B. Stewart discuss the Umbrella House against the background of Japanese architectural discourse between 1960 and the present. Kazuo Shinohara (1925 2006) was one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation, forming what is now widely known as the Shinohara School alongside Toyo Ito, Kazunari Sakamoto and Itsuko Hasegawa. He was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan's (AIJ) grand prize in 2005. In 2010 the Venice Biennale awarded a special commemorative Golden Lion in memory of Shinohara., The Umbrella House is the smallest residential home by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006). This book tells the story of his unique masterpiece, which was first built in Tokyo in 1961. More than sixty years later, a stroke of good fortune made it possible to save the Umbrella House from demolition and move it to a new location, where it now stands on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany). The wooden house's post-and-beam construction references traditional Japanese domestic and temple architecture. Experts from Japan and Europe supervised the dismantling of the house in Tokyo and its reassembly in Weil am Rhein. The book traces the long journey of the Umbrella House in lavish illustrations including impressions from 1960s Japan, architectural designs and plans, and photographs that document its dismantling and reassembly or show the house in its new location. Texts by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Shin-ichi Okuyama, and David B. Stewart discuss the Umbrella House against the background of Japanese architectural discourse between 1960 and the present. "The strength of my conviction that A House is a Work of Art was born of the struggle with this small house. I wished to express the force of space contained in the doma [earthen-floor room] of an old Japanese farmhouse, this time by means of the geometric structural design of a karakasa [oiled-paper Japanese umbrella]." Kazuo Shinohara in a text on the Umbrella House published in October 1962 in the Japanese architecture journal Shinkenchiku (vol. 37, no. 10; first published in English in February 1963 in The Japan Architect, vol. 38, no. 2)., This is the story of Umbrella House conceived by the mathematically trained Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006), from its initial construction in Tokyo, Japan in 1961 to its preservation little over half a century later at Vitra in Weil am Rhem, Germany. Thanks to a stroke of good fortune, the house was saved from demolition but could not remain in Tokyo. So, this little masterpiece was carefully dismantled, its timbers painstakingly conserved, packed, shipped, and then reassembled, before reconstruction on the Vitra Campus. Expanding on photographs by Osamu Murai and Damian Poffet, contributors include Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuo Shinohara, Christian Dehli, and Andrea Grolimund, as well as David B. Stewart together wilh Shin-ichi Okuyama. The house's journey from Japan to Germany is also presented in a short photo series., The story of Shinohara's exquisite modernist gem, a residential home drawing on Japanese vernacular and religious architecture Built in Tokyo in 1961, the Umbrella House is the smallest residential home created by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara. More than 60 years later, a stroke of good fortune made it possible to save the Umbrella House from demolition and move it to a new location, where it now stands on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The wooden house's post-and-beam construction references traditional Japanese domestic and temple architecture. Experts from Japan and Europe supervised the dismantling of the house in Tokyo and its reassembly in Weil am Rhein. This concise volume traces the long journey of the Umbrella House, in lavish illustrations including impressions from 1960s Japan, architectural designs and plans, and photographs documenting its dismantling and reassembly at its new location. Texts by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Shin-ichi Okuyama and David B. Stewart discuss the Umbrella House against the background of Japanese architectural discourse between 1960 and the present. Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) was one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation, forming what is now widely known as the Shinohara School alongside Toyo Ito, Kazunari Sakamoto and Itsuko Hasegawa. He was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan's (AIJ) grand prize in 2005. In 2010 the Venice Biennale awarded a special commemorative Golden Lion in memory of Shinohara.
LC Classification Number
NA1555.5
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