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Built in Tokyo in 1961, the Umbrella House is the smallest residential home created by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara. More than 60 years later, a stroke of good fortune made it possible to save the Umbrella House from demolition and move it to a new location, where it now stands on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The wooden house’s post-and-beam construction references traditional Japanese domestic and temple architecture. Experts from Japan and Europe supervised the dismantling of the house in Tokyo and its reassembly in Weil am Rhein.This concise volume traces the long journey of the Umbrella House, in lavish illustrations including impressions from 1960s Japan, architectural designs and plans, and photographs documenting its dismantling and reassembly at its new location. Texts by Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Shin-ichi Okuyama and David B. Stewart discuss the Umbrella House against the background of Japanese architectural discourse between 1960 and the present.Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) was one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan’s postwar generation, forming what is now widely known as the Shinohara School alongside Toyo Ito, Kazunari Sakamoto and Itsuko Hasegawa. He was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan’s (AIJ) grand prize in 2005. In 2010 the Venice Biennale awarded a special commemorative Golden Lion in memory of Shinohara.

Woningbouw ; monteerbare ; demonteerbare --- Houtverbindingen; Japan --- Woningbouw ; Japan ; 20ste eeuw --- Nishizawa, Ryue °1960 (°Tokyo, Japan) --- Vitra Design Museum Collection --- Shinohara, Kazuo 1925-2006 (°Shizuoka, Japan) --- Architectuur ; Japan ; 2de h. 20ste eeuw --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Shinohara, Kazuo

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Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) 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 Shinohara's architecture lends his work a poetic quality that fuses simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected. More than anyone else, he laid the foundations for the rigor and vitality of architecture in Japan today. In placing Shinohara's later, institutional-scale works, which have been overlooked until now, alongside the iconic houses of his earlier career, this book establishes the architect's insistence on the equivalation between the house and the city. New scholarly essays, interviews with clients and collaborators, and translations of Shinohara's key texts are complemented by previously unpublished archival drawings and personal travel photographs by Shinohara. The volume reframes his architectural achievements in terms of his oeuvre as a whole and situates them in the broader cultural and social context in Japan and globally.

Architects --- Architecture --- History --- Shinohara, Kazuo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Shinohara, Kazuo --- Dessins et plans. --- Architecture, Japanese --- Architecture, Domestic --- Criticism and interpretation --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Shinohara, Kazuo 1925-2006 (°Shizuoka, Japan) --- Architectuur ; Japan ; 2de h. 20ste eeuw ; Metabolisten --- Metabolisme --- Architectuur; Japan; Kazuo Shinohara --- Architecture, Japanese - 20th century --- Architecture, Domestic - Japan - 20th century --- Shinohara, Kazuo, - 1925-2006 - Criticism and interpretation --- Shinohara, Kazuo, - 1925-2006