Ja 110 Insights From Building Sites

Description

This special issue is devoted to building sites, the places where architectural ideas assume physical forms. Building sites are used as points of departure to examine the processes of trial and error in which architects engage to realise their buildings. There exists a trend among Japanese architects to be actively involved in on-site developments and to include construction processes in the scope of their designs. In focusing on what transpires at the building site, the moment when an architect’s creative consciousness is sublimated into the building and its spaces can be observed. The issue features seventeen recent projects, as well as examples completed from the 1950s through the ’80s.

CONTENTS

• Building Sites Are the Frontline of Architecture, Kozo Kadowaki
• Nagoya No.2 Nishi Telephone Office / Architectural Division of Nippon Telecommunication Public Co.
• National Gymnasium / Kenzo Tange and URTEC
• Hotel Tokoen / Kikutake Architects
• Palaceside Building / Nikken Sekkei Komu
• Kasumigaseki Building / Kasumigaseki Building Construction Committee,Mitsui Fudosan, Yamashita Toshiro Architectural Office
• EXPO’70 / Kenzo Tange etc.
• Nakagin Capsule Tower / KISHO KUROKAWA architect & associates
• White U / Toyo Ito
• House in Uehara / Kazuo Shinohara
• Shonandai Culture Center / ITSUKO HASEGAWA atelier
• SHOGIN TACT TSURUOKA / SANAA+Shinbo Architects Office+Ishikawa Architects Office
• Astramline Shin-Hakushima Station / Kazuhiro Kojima+Kazuko Akamatsu+CAt Pacific Consultants
• Omiyamae Gymnasium / Jun Aoki & Associates
• Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office
• Shibata City Hall / aat+Makoto Yokomizo Architects
• Bamboo Corridor / dot architects + Toki Laboratory, University of Shiga Prefecture
• Momoyama House / Erika Nakagawa Office
• House in Sangenjaya / Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects
• House & Restaurant / junya.ishigami+associates
• Dejima Footbridge / Ney & Partners Japan
• Suita City Football Stadium(Panasonic Stadium Suita) / Takenaka Corporation
• Nobeoka Station Area Project / Inui Architects
• Otaki Town Hall / Chiba Manabu Architects
• Kogakuin University 125th Memorial Education Center / Chiba Manabu Architects
• Sukagawa Civic Center  / Ishimoto Architectural & Engineering Firm Collaborate Unemori Architects
• New National Stadium Development Project / Taisei Corporation, Azusa Sekkei Co.Ltd And Kengo Kuma And Associates Joint Venture
• Collection Pinault Paris / Bourse de Commerce / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates + NeM / Niney et Marca Architectes (Local Architect) + Pierre-Antoine(Gatier Architect in Chief of French National Heritage)

128 pages, ills in colour & bw / 23 x 30 cm / English, Japanese