Research Catalog

Title

A Japanese constellation : Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA, Ryue Nishizawa, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Junya Ishigami / edited by Sarah Resnick ; foreword by Glenn D. Lowry ; [event organized by] Pedro Gadanho.

Publication

• New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2016]
• New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gadanho, Pedro
• Springstubb, Phoebe
• Resnick, Sarah
• Fujimori, Terunobu, 1946-
• Igarashi, Tarō, 1967-
• Worrall, Julian.
• Lowry, Glenn D.
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Description

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans; 31 cm

Summary

"'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."--Dust jacket.

Subject

• Itō, Toyoo, 1941-
• Sejima, Kazuyo, 1956-
• Nishizawa, Ryūe, 1966-
• Fujimoto, Sōsuke, 1971-
• Hirata, Akihisa, 1971-
• Ishigami, Jun'ya, 1974-
• Itō, Toyoo, > Influence
• Itō, Toyoo, 1941-
• Sejima, Kazuyo, 1956-
• Fujimoto, Sōsuke, 1971-
• Ishigami, Junʼya, 1974-
• SANAA Ltd
• 2000-2099
• Architecture, Japanese > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Architecture japonaise > 21e siècle > Expositions
• Architecture, Japanese > Exhibitions > 21st century
• Architecture, Japanese
• Architecture > Japan > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogues.
• k – Exhibition – v – publications.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'A Japanese constellation : Toyo Ito, SANAA, and beyond', at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 13-July 4, 2016. Organized by Pedro Gadanho, Director, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, with Phoebe Springstubb, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art."--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Credits (note)

• Edited by Sarah Resnick.

Contents

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Acknowledgments -- An influential lightness of being / Pedro Gadanho -- Toyo Ito -- Kazuyo Sejima -- Magical spatial inversion / Terunobu Fujimori -- SANAA -- Ryue Nishizawa -- Sou Fujimoto -- New architecture after "history" / Taro Igarashi -- Akihisa Hirata -- Junya Ishigami -- The deep field: resolving a Japanese constellation / Julian Worrall.

ISBN

• 9781633450097
• 1633450090

LCCN

2015956789

OCLC

• ocn944431014
• 944431014
• SCSB-9754039

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library