Shuhei Endo: Paramodern Architecture - Hardcover

Mondadori Electa SpA

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904313140 ISBN 13: 9781904313144

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2003

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About this title

Synopsis:

Since founding his own studio in the 1980s, Shuhei Endo (born 1960) has been concerned with creating architectural spaces out of continuous strips of material - most often rolled or corrugated steel - that encompass both roof and wall, looping and coiling to enclose interior spaces while leaving much of the structure exposed. To date, his projects have been small-scale, mostly concentrated in the Kansai region: a parking structure for bicycles (Cyclestation M), a public toilet facility in an outdoor park in Hyogo (Springtecture H), a railroad station (Transtation O), and a rural agricultural market (Rooftecture B). Responding to their standardized, industrial materials, Endo's projects carry generic names with repetitive suffixes and one-letter IDs, but their form is anything but generic - the projects resemble abstract sculpture more than they do architecture with regular geometries. Of his Springtecture H lavatory facility, Jonathan Glancey of "The Guardian" wrote: "This is a brilliant, unabashed swirl of galvanized corrugated metal, its loops and spirals derived from the structural logic of this malleable material."

In addition to small-scale work, Endo has designed two larger competition entries, including an addition to an art museum in northeastern Japan (Springtecture A/Aomori project, 2000), and an addition to the headquarters of the World Intellectual Properties Organization in Geneva (Rooftecture W/Wipo Project, 2000). This book follows the format of Electa's series on contemporary architects, showcasing 32 of Endo's projects with concise project descriptions, colour photographs, plans, and drawings. It includes a complete illustrated list of projects and a biography.

About the Author:

Hiroyuki Suzuki is a professor of architecture at the University of Tokyo, where he has taught since 1990. He has published essays and articles in leading Japanese and international periodicals and is the author of the books Shisendo: Hall of the Poetry Immortals (1991) and Back from Utopia (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1904313140
• ISBN 13: 9781904313144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216