Kazuo Shinohara: On the Threshold of Space-Making

Shinohara Kazuo, a prominent architect of Japan's postwar generation, is known for his minimalist and abstract houses that broke away from traditional suburban architecture. This book explores his work through new scholarship and unpublished archival drawings, providing fresh perspectives on his contribution to modern architecture.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 200 pages
\n Publication date: 31 December 2018
\n Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
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Shinohara Kazuo, a prominent architect of Japan's postwar generation, has garnered limited recognition beyond a dedicated community of enthusiasts. As a leader of the architectural movement known as Metabolism, Shinohara achieved cult-like status with his sublimely beautiful and purist houses that departed from Japan's postwar suburban architecture. Among his most iconic works is the House of White (1964-66), which reimagines a familiar design palette, including a square plan, a pointed roof, white walls, and a symbolic heart pillar, to create an expansive and almost oceanic sense of space through abstraction. Shinohara's architecture is characterized by its underlying formalism, which delves into geometry and color, lending his work a poetic quality that blends simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected. This comprehensive volume brings together fresh scholarship from esteemed specialists on Shinohara and Japan's modern architecture. It offers new perspectives and historical frameworks, ranging from the development of the small house as a building type in postwar Japan to Shinohara's engagement with French critical theory. Supplementing the essays are hitherto unpublished archival drawings and personal travel photographs by Shinohara, enhancing the understanding and appreciation of his remarkable contributions.

\n Weight: 1398g\n
Dimension: 208 x 256 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9783037785331\n \n