Shinohara, Kazuo
Shinohara, Kazuo (1925– ). Japanese architect. His best-known works are the house in Uehara, Tokyo (1975–6), with its massive truss-like structure inside, a development of the free-standing columnar theme first used in the ‘House in White’, Tokyo (1966). His designs are characterized by a powerful expression of architectural elements which he uses in symbolic ways, as in the ‘Unfinished House’, Tokyo (1970). His work gradually became more expressive and extreme, as in the fractured segments of the Karuizawa house (1975). He has attempted to obliterate all sentimentality from his designs, and moved away from his early interest in Japanese vernacular traditions (e.g. the Tokyo Institute of Technology Centennial Hall (1987)). He published Residential Architecture (1964), Theories on Residences (1970), 16 Houses and Architectural Theory (1971), and much else.
Bibliography
Kalman (1994);
Shinohara (1976);
Shinohara & and Matsunaga (1982);
D. Stewart (1995)
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