Shuhei Endo: Paramodern Architecture

Hiroyuki Suzuki - Collection Architecture

212 pages, parution le 09/06/2003

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Edited by Hiroyuki Suzuki, this book offers readers the first complete monograph dedicated to the work of Shuhei Endo. Now only in his forties, Endo has recently received extensive coverage in the international architectural press for the originality of his buildings. Skintecture, Springtecture, Rooftecture are some of the labels he uses to indicate the formal and structural features of his work, mostly made in highly original fashion from corrugated sheet-metal and other explicitly "cheap" materials. Endo uses the two concepts Renzokutai and Bunyutai, which can be translated as "continuity" and "partial sharing" or "sharing of parts." The terms express Endo's interest in building components that are quintessential^ ambiguous and architectural arrangements whose origin Suzuki explains as the expression of a heterodox relationship between tradition and experiment: "Traditional architecture in Japan is essentially a series of open spaces: groups of mostly one-story buildings and gardens are arranged in patterns like the tiles of a mosaic. Traditional Japanese buildings are inseparable from gardens. The main rooms are always laid out so they open onto gardens and their spaces are extended into courtyards, as part of a conception that sees no value in enclosed, isolated spaces. If we return to this tradition we can understand where the originality of Endo's buildings stems from, the origin of the singularity of the agenda he is pursuing, as he twists the 'skin' of his buildings, using sheet steel in rolled layers to define volumes that are never fully enclosed."

L'auteur - Hiroyuki Suzuki

Hiroyuki Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1945 and graduated in engineering from the School of Architecture at Tokyo University in 1968. In 1974 he took a Master in Engineering at the University of Tokyo and between 1974 and 1975 conducted research at London's Courtauld Institute of Art. In 1984 he took his PhD, in 1990 he became Professor of Architecture at the University of Tokyo and in 1993 he was visiting professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard. He has published essays and articles in leading Japanese and international periodicals. His books translated outside Japan include Shisendo. Hall of the Poetry Immortals, New York 1991, and Back from Utopia, Rotterdam 2002.

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The Architecture of Shuhei Endo and the Essence of Japan
Paramodern Architecture
Works and Projects
- Cyclestation M, bicycle deposit, Maihara-cho, Shiga, 1993-94
- Healtecture K, home-clinic, Takatsuki, Osaka, 1994-96
- Transtreet Geba, park and playground, Fukui, 1994-96
- Skintecture I, fish research center, Singu-cho, Hyogo, 1994-96
- Transtation O, station shelter, Sakai-cho, Fukui, 1995-97
- ...
Appendices
- Chronology pf Works
- Biography
- Bibliography
- Collaborators Photograph Credits

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Electa architecture
Auteur(s)	Hiroyuki Suzuki
Collection	Architecture
Parution	09/06/2003
Nb. de pages	212
Format	22,5 x 28,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1335g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9781904313144
ISBN13	978-1-904313-14-4