A survey of the most innovative new houses built in Japan.
Modeled on the format of Modern House, Modern House 2, and Modern House 3, Modern Japanese House is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international architecture scene. The projects are divided into five chapters - Tiny Houses, Inside/ Outside, Multi Generation Houses, Work/Play, and Vacation Houses - that reflect the issues particular to residential design in Japan. Architects featured include such familiar figures as Kazuyo Sejima, Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, Hitoshi Abe and Shuhei Endo, as well as lesser known practitioners such as Nobuaki Furuya, Hiroshii Nakao, among others.
Recenzijos
'A beautiful, revelatory book, opening up a world of Japanese architecture that has been little known in the WestPollock conveys the ingenuity the sheer variety of solutions of architects facing some decidedly challenging sites. Their designs are full of wit, surprise and a sense of grace and serenityA great strength of this book is that each group of houses is prefaced by an introduction which sets them against a background of tradition and social change in Japan, followed by a detailed description of each design which shows exactly how it evolved.' (Architects Journal)
Introduction;
Chapter 1: The Tiny House; House in a Plum Grove, Kazuyo
Sejima & Associates; "c," Jun Aoki & Associates; Natural Shelter, Masaki
Endoh + Masahiro Ikeda; UNS, Hiroyuki Arima + Urban Fourth; T Set, Chiba
Manabu Architects;
Chapter 2: The Indoor-Outdoor House; Shutter House for a
Photographer, Shigeru Ban Architects; Ambiflux, Akira Yoneda/Architecton;
Balcony House, Tezuka Architects; "S," Jun Aoki & Associates; Introspective,
Hiroyuki Arima + Urban Fourth;
Chapter 3: The Multigeneration House; House in
Higashi-Otsu, Waro Kishi + K. Associates/Architects; Naked House, Shigeru Ban
Architects; House in Sugamo, Makoto Motokura/Kenchiku Design Studio; TN, ADH
Architects; Zig/Zag, Nobuaki Furuya/Studio Nasca;
Chapter 4: The Work and
Play House; House for a Vegetable Seller, Yoko Inoue/Atelier Knot;
Healtecture, Shuhei Endo Architect Institute; Plane + House, Koh Kitayama +
architecture WORKSHOP; House with Studio for a Flower Artist, Nakao Serizawa
Architects; House in the Woods, Chiharu Sugi + Manami Takahashi/Plannet
Works;
Chapter 5: The Vacation House; Forest/Floor, Kengo Kuma & Associates;
Yomiuri Guesthouse, Atelier Hitoshi Abe; Weekend House, Office of Ryue
Nishizawa; House +, Yagi Architect Office; Villa Fujii, Motomu Uno + Phase
Associates
Naomi Pollock has been writing about design in Japan since 1989. Her articles have appeared in numerous prominent publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Dwell, Interior Design, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Architectural Record, for whom she is the Special International Correspondent.
A trained and licensed architect, she was a guest curator for an exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 entitled 'Japan 2000: Architecture and Design for the Japanese Public'.
