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SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, 2011-2018
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ISBN: 9784871404365 4871404366 Year: 2018 Publisher: Tokyo : A.D.A. Edita,


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A Japanese constellation : Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA, Ryue Nishizawa, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Junya Ishigami
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ISBN: 9781633450097 1633450090 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York New York The Museum of Modern Art Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.

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'A Japanese Constellation' showcases a group of contemporary architects who work in Japan but whose influence extends throughout the world. This book, published in conjunction with the first exhibition to feature three generations of practitioners orbiting Pritzker Architecture Prize laureates Toyo Ito and SANAA, moves beyond the limited framework of the architectural "star system" to illuminate how shared themes may spawn cross-generational lines of descent and influence. Highlighting forty-four designs realized since the year 2001, the volume reveals how structural invention, ceaseless experimentation, nonhierarchical thinking, and novel uses of transparency and lightness inform and strengthen the identity of linked local practices, even as their impact is global. With 336 illustrations as well as essays by Perdo Gadanho, Terunobu Fujimori, Taro Igarashi, and Julian Worrall.


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Thomas Demand : model studies I & II
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ISBN: 9783863357801 3863357809 Year: 2015 Publisher: Köln Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

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Models are generally understood as filtered interpretations of the environment, without the distraction of a multitude of various stimulations. In architecture they lean toward the utopian, showing how much better things could be: neither details nor decay can obfuscate the splendor of the new development on display. My own association with models has often taken advantage of the untouched and timeless quality they can offer. Parallel to those efforts, the materiality and transitory potential of paper and cardboard as such - materials we are all rather familiar with, in terms of makeshift projects and provisional usefulness- have not only moved from the margins of my studio to the center of my attention, but have also prompted a different approach. Looking at the details and the little pockets, edges, and coincidental collocations of the objects in front of me allowed me to emphasize their sculptural potential in an abstracted composition, instead of reading them as identifiable renderings of buildings. Taking this detour, this may well be my most photographic work to date, looking closely at someone else's models and process in a workshop which could be my own - but isn't. (Thomas Demand)

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