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Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City

Edited by Seng Kuan

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One of the greatest and most influential architects of Japanâ€™s postwar generation, Kazuo Shinohara (1925â€“2006) has remained virtually unknown outside the small community of devoted followers. As one of the leaders of architectural movement Metabolism, Shinohara achieved cult-figure stature with sublimely beautiful, purist houses that break away from Japanâ€™s postwar suburban architecture. Perhaps the most iconic of Shinoharaâ€™s works, House of White (1964â€“66), rearranges a familiar design paletteâ€”a square plan, a pointed roof, white walls, and a symbolic heart pillarâ€”to give almost oceanic spaciousness through abstraction. The underlying formalism in Shinoharaâ€™s architectureâ€”its basic explorations of geometry and colorâ€” lends his work a poetic quality that fuses simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected. This volume brings together new scholarship from the foremost specialists on Shinohara and Japanâ€™s modern architecture. New perspectives and historical frameworks range from the development of the small house as a building type in postwar Japan to Shinoharaâ€™s engagement with French critical theory. Hitherto unpublished archival drawings and personal travel photographs by Shinohara complement the essays.