Tokyo Institute of Technology Centennial Hall 2009

was a Japanese architect, forming what is now widely known as the "Shinohara School", which has been linked to the works of

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a "simulated" ...

, Kazunari Sakamoto and

Itsuko Hasegawa is a Japanese architect. Biography Itsuko Hasegawa was born in Yaizu City, Japan in 1941. She studied at the Department of Architecture at Kanto Gakuin University, graduating in 1964. From then until 1969, she worked with Kiyonori Kikutake an ...

. As architectural critic Thomas Daniell put it, "A key figure who explicitly rejected Western influences yet appears on almost every branch of the family tree of contemporary Japanese architecture... is Kazuo Shinohara... His effects on the discipline as a theorist, designer and teacher have been immense." He studied at

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...

, (TIT) finishing in 1953, and going on to become professor in 1970. He established his own practice in 1954, going on to design more than 30 residential buildings, as well as many key public buildings across Japan. His work is generally classified as having strong qualities of lucidity and ephemerality, and for these reasons is often seen as ideologically influential on Toyo Ito's work. He was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan's (AIJ) grand prize in 2005. In 2010 the

Biennale di Venezia The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

awarded a special commemorative Golden Lion in memory of Kazuo Shinohara.Rem Koolhaas Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
, Biennale press release, 16 July 2010

List of selected works

Kugayama House (1954)
* Umbrella House (1961) * House with an Earthen Floor (1963) * North House in Hanayama (1965)
House in White (1966)
* House of Earth (1966) * Uncompleted House (1970)
Prism House (1974)

Tanikawa House (1974)
* Uehara House (1976) * House Under High Voltage Lines (1981) * House in Yokohama (1985) * Japan Ukiyo-e Museum in Matsumoto (1982) *

(TIT) Centennial Hall; Tokyo (1987) * Kumamoto Police Station (1990) * K2 Building; Osaka (1990)

Bibliography

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Exhibitions

* 2010: Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.

References

External links

Article on "The Intrinsic Structure of Shinohara's Work"

Architectural Record's obituary of Shinohara

Publication: "A Street with Human Shadows"

Article on "The Influence of Milieu in the Residential Architecture of Shinohara Kazuo"

Excerpt of the 2G monograph n. 58/59 "Kazuo Shinohara: Casas/Houses", Enric Massip-Bosch, David B. Stewart, Shin-Ichi Okuyama. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2011

Conversation between Kazuo Shinohara and Hans Ulrich Obrist published in Quaderns d'Arquitectura, n. 265, Barcelona 04.2014
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shinohara, Kazuo Japanese architects 1925 births 2006 deaths Tokyo Institute of Technology faculty Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon