the umbrella house project Shinohara, Kazuo. creator text biography gw 2022 First edition. monographic eng

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111 p. ; 9 unnumbered pages : ill. ; photo. col. ; 25 cm. "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."--Amazon.com 13 Introduction -- 15 Umbrella House and the struggles of Kazuo Shinohara / Ryue Nishizawa -- 31 Umbrella House / Kazuo Shinohara -- 51 Plans -- 57 Construction and reconstruction / Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund -- 96 An architect's DNA revealed in a single work / Shin-ichi Okuyama, David B. Stewart -- 109 Biography, Kazuo Shinohara, contributors -- 110 Building facts -- 111 Chronology Acknowledgements -- edited by Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund. Shinohara, Kazuo 1925-2006 Architecture General Architecture Domestic Germany Architecture Domestic Japan Exhibition catalogs Wooden-frame houses Germany Wooden-frame houses Japan NA1559.S55 U43 2022 9783945852552 pucpr 230513 20230613153941.0 eng