JA108 Winter, 2018 Akihisa Hirata

Save this picture!

JA108 is a special issue on the architect Akihisa Hirata. It is a record of his design work over about 15 years, from his earliest works to works currently underway. For Hirata, architecture is part of the living world.

Throughout his career, he has consistently sought to extend this perspective conceptually and in his practice, through geometric systems, methods to incorporate diversity, and concepts arising from the search for organic connections, notably karamari (an intertwined relationship) and karamari-shiro (an opportunity for karamari). Working at various scales, he continues to propose new settings for human activities.

This issue introduces about 60 projects, including built architecture, installations and unrealized proposals, dating from 2003 to the present. From one work to the next, he has developed new ideas and explored the realities of building architecture. We hope that our readers will find hints in these pages to aid in their own explorations of the architecture to come.

[Dialogue]
Toward Jagged Diversity
Shohei Shigematsu×Akihisa Hirata

[Monologue]
The Wild and Savage Future of Architecture
Akihisa Hirata

[Timeline]

[Projects]
Art Museum & Library, Ota
Tree-ness House
Taipei Roofs
Overlap House
Itsukushima Roof
Timber Foam
Cloud of the Future
Long House hotel version
Taipei Complex
Fermented House
Kamaishi Nursery School
Higashi-Totsuka Church
Alps Tree
Grobal Cave
Häm
Museum Forest of "Hill Valley"
Higashi-Totsuka Church
Kotoriku
Cloud and Slope
Invisible Lines
Long Garden　
Soil
Fermented Tower
Kamaishi City Disaster Recovery Public Housing
Taipei Complex previous version
LEXUS -amazing flow-
Mori Trust Garden TORA4
Kikusui Elementary and Junior High School
Home-for-All
Flow_er
Coil
Hotel J
Photosynthesis
Bloomberg Pavilion
Garden within Grid within Garden
Long House
Yoshioka Library
Foam Form
Prism Liquid
Alp
One Roof Apartment
Fermented City
Flame Frame
Animated Knot
Pavilion C
Pleated Sky
Architecture Farm
Sarugaku
OORDER
House of House (House T)
House S
Gallery S
Chair "Csh"
Bag for F
Pleats Principle
Project K
R-Minamiaoyama
Masuya 　　　
House H
Annaka Art Forum

• Title

  JA108 Winter, 2018 Akihisa Hirata

• Author

  A+U Publishing

• Publisher

  A+U Publishing Co.,Ltd

• Publication year

  2017

• Binding

  Softcover

• Language

  English/Japanese

JA108 Winter, 2018 Akihisa Hirata

Buy now