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Waro Kishi
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Waro Kishi
Hardcover. Waro Kishi first caught the attention of the architectural world with his house in Nipponbashi, an elegant townhouse in an Osaka district full of stores marketing electric and electronic goods. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 305 x 250 x 15. Weight in Grams: 966.
Waro Kishi first caught the attention of the architectural world with his house in Nipponbashi, en elegant townhouse in an Osaka district full of stores marketing electric and electronic goods. Like a slender volume of poetry in a shelf otherwise crowded with how-to books, it is a work of remarkable lightness and transparency, four storeys high, 13 m deep, but only 2.5 m wide. The award-winning house, which has a steel-frame structure, is economically constructed of readily available materials such as cement boards, yet it is put together with enormous care. The austerity makes the high-ceilinged dining room, a dramatic ... Read more
Waro Kishi first caught the attention of the architectural world with his house in Nipponbashi, en elegant townhouse in an Osaka district full of stores marketing electric and electronic goods. Like a slender volume of poetry in a shelf otherwise crowded with how-to books, it is a work of remarkable lightness and transparency, four storeys high, 13 m deep, but only 2.5 m wide. The award-winning house, which has a steel-frame structure, is economically constructed of readily available materials such as cement boards, yet it is put together with enormous care. The austerity makes the high-ceilinged dining room, a dramatic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783932565151
SKU
V9783932565151
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About Roger Hargreaves
Hiroshi Watanabe studied architecture at Princeton University in Princeton, N. J., and at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. He has written extensively on contemporary Japanese architecture and on the work of architects from Western countries in Japan. He was the Japan correspondent for Progressive Architecture for many years. His writings include The Architecture of Tokyo (Edition Axel Menges), Amazing ... Read more
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