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Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project (Hardcover)
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Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project (Hardcover)
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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).
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