TRAVERSING THE HOUSE AND THE CITY / Kazuo Shinohara Ao-Hata Bookstore Fusing sincere introspection with humour

Fusing sincere introspection with humour

Size: H9cm x φ8

Guen Fiore

写真: トヤマタクロウ

Susanne Graner

TRAVERSING THE HOUSE AND THE CITY / Kazuo Shinohara Ao-Hata Bookstore Fusing sincere introspection with humourKazuo Shinohara (19252006) was one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation. He created sublimely beautiful, purist houses that have reconfigured and enriched our understanding of domesticity, tradition, structure, scale, nature, and the city. The underlying formalism in Shinoharas architecture lends his work a poetic quality that fuses simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected. More than anyone else,