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"This excellent book ... concentrates on what might actually be {the most} important aspect of {SANAA's} portfolio - houses." --City of Sound
"Radical experimental architectural concepts." --Detail
"[Sanaa´s] works are indeed uniquely amazing and the book gives a glimpse into their world." --Shift Magazine
"Radical experimental architectural concepts." --Detail
"[Sanaa´s] works are indeed uniquely amazing and the book gives a glimpse into their world." --Shift Magazine
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Sanaa's housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). Sanaa's architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many elements that are impossible to understand unless actually "experienced". In contrast with modern architecture, Sanaa has many aspects that cannot be revealed in "representative" media such as plans, models, and photographs. The "representations" of their architectural works incorporate ambiguity and chronological elements. This characteristic makes Sanaa one of the most innovative offices in the current architectural panorama.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great! It really gives you the feeling of the esthetics SANAA leads in their work. Feeling of minimalism, whiteness, empty space.. It's pure and clean - the book itself is artwork. The elevations, sections and plans were also quite helpful to my studies of Sejima and Nishizawa and gave me plenty of ideas for my own work. I recomend it to readers who enjoy good photography and architecture.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
terrible book just full of pictures of only a few projects in the making and no explanations
13 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback
i was dissappointed by this book as there's not much in it and it didn't give me a good flavour of the architects, just full of photos of models of a few projects, and not even thier most wel known projects, there is an interesting interview at the beginning of the book, but apart from this, i wouldn't recommend buying it
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Interesting work, could've been presented more elegantly
22 Mar 2008
Format:Paperback
This publication is actually a catalogue produced as a companion to an exhibition that took place at the Castilla & Leon Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain in 2007. The exhibition and this volume feature both the individual work of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa and a selection of projects they completed collaboratively as SANAA.
Finished and unfinished works are both closely examined and as the title suggests, it's strictly residential. One third of the projects presented are multi-family works that generally take an interesting look at the unconventional arrangement and articulation of individual units creating opportunities for idiosyncratic courtyard or open spaces, specifically in the Okurayama Apartments. The single-family projects can be considered thoughtfully in their integration and siting within the urban environment. What sometimes appears to be a precarious relationship to the site unfolds through closer examination of the photos into a broader understanding of the urban context.
The book begins with a gently probing interview between the editor and Sejima and Nishizawa and ends with a collection of essays that weave together the contemporary work of SANAA with a traditional notion of Japanese architecture among other topics. Each project has a paragraph of text with some vital statistics that is presented independent of the projects at the beginning of each major section.
Although the drawings are clear and concise, the books suffers from a somewhat surprising number of washed out and low resolution images that whether intentional or not, seems to compromise the overall execution of the catalogue. The work is experimental and intriguing but there are likely other publications available that present the projects more thoroughly.
Finished and unfinished works are both closely examined and as the title suggests, it's strictly residential. One third of the projects presented are multi-family works that generally take an interesting look at the unconventional arrangement and articulation of individual units creating opportunities for idiosyncratic courtyard or open spaces, specifically in the Okurayama Apartments. The single-family projects can be considered thoughtfully in their integration and siting within the urban environment. What sometimes appears to be a precarious relationship to the site unfolds through closer examination of the photos into a broader understanding of the urban context.
The book begins with a gently probing interview between the editor and Sejima and Nishizawa and ends with a collection of essays that weave together the contemporary work of SANAA with a traditional notion of Japanese architecture among other topics. Each project has a paragraph of text with some vital statistics that is presented independent of the projects at the beginning of each major section.
Although the drawings are clear and concise, the books suffers from a somewhat surprising number of washed out and low resolution images that whether intentional or not, seems to compromise the overall execution of the catalogue. The work is experimental and intriguing but there are likely other publications available that present the projects more thoroughly.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
12 projects fully illustrated in a sophisticated book
14 April 2011
Format:Paperback
12 projects of houses fully illustrated in color in a sophisticated book with excellent photos, plans, sections, models, collages, renderings. Text only on pages 6-23, 90-91, 167-186, and 190-196. The book is very well done graphically, published on glossy paper, and soft-bound. The covers are coated, stain resistant, and strong.
CONTENTS
9 Feeling at home with SANAA: A conversation between Agustin Perez Rubio and Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
21 UNFINISHED HOUSES
24 Flower House
44 Garden & House
52 Seijo Apartments
60 Okurayama Apartments
66 Ichikawa Apartments
70 House in China
80 Eda Apartments
89 FINISHED HOUSES
92 House A
110 S House
116 House in a Plum Grove
128 Small House
134 Moriyama House
167 Reinterpreting traditional aesthetic values by Kristine Guzrnán
175 SANAA in dreams by Luis Fernández-Galiano
181 Radical practices in constructing relationships by Yuko Hasegawa
190 Biographies
CONTENTS
9 Feeling at home with SANAA: A conversation between Agustin Perez Rubio and Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
21 UNFINISHED HOUSES
24 Flower House
44 Garden & House
52 Seijo Apartments
60 Okurayama Apartments
66 Ichikawa Apartments
70 House in China
80 Eda Apartments
89 FINISHED HOUSES
92 House A
110 S House
116 House in a Plum Grove
128 Small House
134 Moriyama House
167 Reinterpreting traditional aesthetic values by Kristine Guzrnán
175 SANAA in dreams by Luis Fernández-Galiano
181 Radical practices in constructing relationships by Yuko Hasegawa
190 Biographies
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