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the Journal of Architecture and Building Science for members to spread its stock of knowledge and information to all of the members. The journal has been one of the most prestigious integrated architectural journals with various topics and articles in the Japanese architectural society.
Kuma is the latest architect to feature on the annual list. He follows American architect Jeanne Gang who was included in 2019, Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller in 2018, British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye in 2017 and BIG founder Bjarke Ingels in 2016.
The Japan Architect (JA) is a dual-language English/Japanese publication that endeavours to bring Japanese architectural practices into a wider awareness. It showcases buildings and structures that have involved Japanese architects, builders and structural engineers with a particular emphasis on structures that highlight Japanese building practices and/or materials. There are several essays included in each issue that discuss a particular theme, and presentations of many (20+) architectural projects that also tie in with the theme accompanied by digital images/blueprints/pictures and commentary by the architects.
There is also a large emphasis placed on the benefits of wood as a construction material as opposed to steel or concrete. The essays and architect commentaries underline the environmental and psychological value of wood, as well as its value to local communities and businesses.
The magazine is a beautifully designed publication, with clean layouts revolving around large photos and architectural designs. It would be well at home on the coffee table of any design enthusiast and provides a wealth of information to people interested in the use of wood by Japanese architects.
Japan Architect (JA) is an architectural magazine first published in 1956. Its ambition was to popularize Japanese architecture to an international audience by being the first and only English-language Japanese architecture magazine. The magazine and the audience have evolved a lot but its objective has remained the same: to defend the current Japanese architectural ideas, publishing mainly projects in Japan. It presents esquisses, drawings, plans and photographs of projects but also essays studying various themes and discussions in the fields of Japanese architecture and urbanism. As one would expect, many famous architects have been published there, but what is interesting, especially in the 1970s, is the strong dominance of theoretical projects little known to the general public. Moreover the projects are commented, contextualized or attached to a theme that guides the issue. We propose here a non-exhaustive selection of drawings and photographs that show a great graphic expression. It focuses mainly on the last three decades of the 20th century.
Japenese architect Kengo Kuma visited Dallas for the completion of the new Rolex building in Harwood, which his firm designed. On August 19, Michael Friebele, Assoc. AIA, sat down with Kuma and other members of the design team to discuss his perspectives on architecture and experience designing a building for Texas. What follows is an edited version of that discussion.
KK: The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami were a big shock for us in Japan because we believed that concrete buildings could withstand natural disasters. During this time, we learned the weakness of concrete and observed the resilience of modest hill houses, designed in the 19th century with tsunamis in mind. This was a valuable lesson. We should respect nature. It should be the basis of architectural design. If we become arrogant, the building cannot survive.
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JA showcases contemporary Japanese architecture with in-depth commentary on the theoretical history and context of the projects. It is organized with an emphasis on developments originating in Japan. The magazine surveys the country's diverse, ever-changing architectural scene, identifies important trends to convey to a wider audience outside Japan, takes up current, compelling issues and considers the latest architectural trends.
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Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, ACSA is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Our membership includes all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together ACSA schools represent some 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.
This fall, an art installation created by The LADG that explored concepts of the picturesque in contemporary architecture was on display at the GSD. Photos of the exhibition, The Kid Gets Out of the Picture at the GSD, are included in the Archinect piece. (Read more about the installation and its California counterpart.)
But Wright also had a rare nonarchitectural passion that set him apart from his mentor, Louis Sullivan, and his peers: Japanese art. Wright first became interested in his early 20s, and within a decade, he was an internationally known collector of Japanese woodblock prints.
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The leading international architects choose it as their showcase. The volumes dedicated to established Pritzker Prize names like OMA Rem Koolhaas, Kazuyo Sejima, Herzog & de Meuron, Alvaro Siza or Rafael Moneo, are considered their respective oeuvre complète. For emerging architects, being published by El Croquis is a target in itself.
Lisa Hsieh is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in history and theory of architecture from Princeton University in 2013. Her writings, which range from research, criticism, fiction and non-fiction, have been published in Log (Anyone Corporation), Architectural Research Quarterly (Cambridge University Press), Young Architects 5 (Princeton Architectural Press), and Thresholds (MIT Press). Hsieh was previously a design principle of Butterfly (ar-ch) Studio. In 2003, she won the Young Architect Award (aka Architectural League Prize), sponsored by the Architectural League of New York. Her design works have been published in New York Times and Shinkenchiku, and exhibited at the Urban Center Gallery in New York City and the Banvard Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Hsieh has been a freelance writer for the Star Tribune newspapers and is a frequent juror in design competitions, including American Institute of Architects Merit Awards and Architectural League Prize.
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Ban has designed elaborate museums, business headquarters, and residential buildings, yet he is equally well known for his humanitarian work designing emergency shelters for refugees of war and natural disasters around the world. With his unique blend of creative talent and compassion, Ban has redefined the role of the architect, creating structures that not only captivate with their aesthetic appeal but also serve as high-quality solutions for protecting the environment and people in crisis.
Ban credits a trip he took to Finland during this period as pivotal to his development as an architect. He took a job working for the famous Japanese architecture photographer Yokio Futagawa, who published the Global Architecture (GA) books and magazine series. With Futagawa, Ban traveled the world, photographing cutting-edge architecture.
Ban thought of an outdoor application for his paper tube structure in 1994, while reading a magazine article about the more than 2 million refugees of Rwandan civil war and genocide who were enduring harsh conditions in makeshift shelters provided by the United Nations. The existing shelters, constructed with local timber and covered with a UN tarpaulin, were cold and damp, and the use of wood in so many shelters had led to severe deforestation in the country. To stop the deforestation, the UN had begun providing aluminum pipes to replace wood, but these were so valuable that refugees sold them for money rather than keeping them for housing.
PERHAPS THE GREATEST HURDLE of building on a hilltop where the towns of Ross and Kentfield share a territorial border was that a woodsy midcentury summer home by noted architect William Wurster already stood there.
Because of its floor plan, nearly all the rooms have access to stone-covered courtyards and wood decks interspersed with Zen-like gardens planted by the San Francisco landscape architecture firm Surfacedesign Inc.
Your buildings are often distinguished by their pure geometric forms and use of exposed concrete. How are you able to achieve such a human quality in your architecture using very basic shapes and materials?
My intention is to create a specific space that does not exist autonomously of its site, using common materials that we can find anywhere in the world, like concrete, which consists of sand, stone and cement. I believe that the emotional power in architecture comes from how we introduce natural elements into the architectural space. Therefore, rather than making elaborate forms, I choose simple geometries to draw delicate yet dramatic plays of light and shadow in space.
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