Shinohara Kazuo｜Author: Shinohara Kazuo

Shinohara Kazuo

Published: April 2025
ISBN＝978-4-88706-418-8
Unit price: 22,000JPY (tax included)
Author: Shinohara Kazuo

Pages: 416 (Japanese) + 60 (English)
Collection of architectural projects in Japanese + Expository writeing essay in English
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300×300mm, 476pages, Japanese + English translation

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The special edition in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth

This edition, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth of Architect Kazuo Shinohara, is a reprint from April 2025 of "篠原一男 Shinohara Kazuo, " a collection of architectural projects edition by Shinohara himself and published in 1996.
It showcases 55 projects including unbuilt ones, accompanied by an essay newly written for this publication. The drawings revealed in this book are also worth looking at.
this box set contains "Shinohara Kazuo" and an English translation booklet.

Profile

Kazuo Shinohara

Architect. 1925-2006. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture. Graduated from the mathematics department at the Tokyo School of Physics (now the Tokyo University of Science) in 1947. He then shifted his career path to architecture and enrolled in the architecture department at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now the Institute of Science Tokyo), where he studied under Kiyoshi Seike and graduated in 1953. Assumed professorship at the university in 1970 and served as a visiting professor at Yale University in 1984. In 1986, he retired from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and became an emeritus professor. That same year, he taught as a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology and established the Shinohara Atelier. Notable works include the Umbrella House, House in White, Tanikawa House, and House in Uehara. Notable publications include Jutaku Kenchiku [Residential Architecture], Jutakuron [Housing Theory], and Chotaisu Shugo Toshi e [Towards a Super Large Collective City]. Notable awards include the Architectural Institute of Japan's AIJ Prize in 1972 for his series of housing projects following the Uncompleted House, the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 1989 for the Tokyo Institute of Technology Centennial Hall, the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1990, the Mainichi Art Award Special Prize in 2005. In 2010, he was awarded the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Memoriam of the Venice Biennale, an Unprecedented honor for a deceased artist.

Look inside

Booklet Contents

Essays by Kazuo Shinohara
Foreword/First Style/Second Style/Third Style/Fourth Style/Unbuilt and Yet Unbuilt/Towards the Fifth Style

Essays by Riichi Miyake
Constructional Thinking that Runs Between Mechanics and Geometry

Built
Fisst Style; House in Kugayama, House in Kugayama No.2, Tanikawa House, House in Komae, House in Chigasaki, Umbrella House, House with a Big Roof, House with an Earthen Floor, North House in Hanayama, Asakura House, House in White, House of Earth, South House in Hanayama, Yamashiro House, Suzusho House

Second Style; The Uncompleted House, Shino House, Cubic Forest, Repeating Crevice, Sea Stairway, Sky Rectangle, House in Kugahara, House in Higashi-Tamagawa, House in Seijo, Prism House

Third Style; Tanikawa House, House in Karuizawa, House in Itoshima, House in Uehara, House in Hanayama No.3, House in Ashitaka, House on a Curved Road, House in Hanayama No.4, House under High-Voltage Lines, Ukiyo-e Museum, Higashi-Tamagawa Complex

Fourth Style; House in Yokohama, Centennial Hall, Tokyo Institute of Technology Clinic in Hanayama, Hanegi Complex, Tenmei House, K2 Building, Kumamoto-Kita Police Station

Unbuilt ant Yet Unbuilt
DOM Headquarters, Goto House Project, The Second National Theater, Paris: Circus on Seine, Agadir Convention Center, Repeating Crevice Annex, Project, Uncompleted House Annex Rroject. Project for New Addition to Ukiyo-e Museum, Euralille Hotel Project, Project for Hamburg Urban Vision. Helsinki Contemporary Art Museum, yokohama International Port Terminal

Biography

Notes; "篠原一男 Shinohara Kazuo" is the same book as ISBN 978-4-88706-416-4, but without the cover.

Related Exhibition

Kazuo Shinohara: Inscribe Eternity in Space――A centennial exhibition with 100 questions

Thursday, April 17 - Sunday, June 22, 2025