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This publication focuses on Sanaas housing projects, both finished works and unrealized projects. SANAA's architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many elements that are impossible to understand unless one actually experiences it. In contrast with modern architecture, SANAA has many aspects that cannot be revealed in representative media such as plans, models, and photographs. The representations of their architectural works incorporate ambiguity and chronological elements. This characteristic makes Sanaa one of the most innovative and productive offices in the current architectural panorama. This publication focuses on Sanaas housing projects, both finished (House in Plum Grove, Moriyama House, Moriyama House, Flower House and Small House), and unrealised projects (Ichikawa apartments, House in China, Hachobori, Orkurayama).
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Sanaa’s housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). SANAA's architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many elements that are impossible to understand unless actually “experienced”. In contrast with modern architecture, SANAA has many aspects that cannot be revealed in “representative” media such as plans, models, and photographs. The “representations” of their architectural works incorporate ambiguity and chronological elements. This characteristic makes Sanaa one of the most innovative offices in the current architectural panorama.
Text by Mark Wigley, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrice Galilee. Foreword by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Despite an age difference of ten years, the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima (b. 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (b. 1966) have developed an equal partnership that has projected them into the architectural limelight since founding their Tokyo-based firm SANAA in 1995. Renowned worldwide for such high-visibility commercial work as Tokyo's translucent Christian Dior Omotesando Building and cultural landmarks like the circular 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the partners of SANAA are currently among the world's most innovative--and thought-provoking--architects, winning the 2004 Venice Biennale's Golden Lion award for their remarkable work as well as the high-profile commission for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, now under construction in New York City.
Lo studio SANAA si contraddistingue per il suo originale approccio al progetto: ogni edificio è elaborato come una sorta di equivalente del diagramma spaziale astratto delle attività quotidiane che è destinato a ospitare. L'uso di volumi elementari, geometrie semplici, materiali traslucidi e involucri in policarbonato contribuisce a un'architettura rarefatta di sconcertante attualità. Fra i suoi lavori ricordiamo: il Saishunkan Seiyaku Women's Dormitory (Kumamoto, 1991), il Multimedia Workshop (Kitakata, 1996), la S-House (Okayama, 1996), il K-Building (Ibaraki, 1997), il Gifu Kitagata Apartment (Gifu, 1998), l'O-Museum (Nagano, 1999), la Small House (Tokyo, 2000). Negli ultimi anni ha progettato e realizzato edifici per Prada, Issey Miyake e Christian Dior. Il volume affianca la mostra monografica che, dopo il Museo di Kanazawa, è ospitata alla Basilica Palladiana di Vicenza a partire dal mese di ottobre. La mostra è organizzata da Abaco Architettura.
Text by Moritz Kung.
The author takes a comprehensive look at projects that exemplify approaches to this field. From museums to residences, from office buildings to universities and yoga centers, this book showcases 28 examples of integrated design that cut across building types, budgets, climates, and locales.
Summary: Hans Ulrich Obrist caught up with the celebrated architect and designer KazuyoSejima on several occasions over the past few years. They discussed her projects both built and unrealised collaborations with other architects and artists and thechanging role of women within architecture. She is often joined by Ryue Nishizawa, her partner in the office SANAA, most recently during their curation of the 12thInternational Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2010. This book enables aunique insight into the thinking and philosophy behind the clear, delicate and sensitivearchitecture of one of the most important architects of our time.