Shuhei Endo - Paramodern Architecture (Hardcover)


Since founding his own studio in the 1980s, Shuhei Endo (born 1960) has been concerned with creating architectural spaces out of continuous strips of material - most often rolled or corrugated steel - that encompass both roof and wall, looping and coiling to enclose interior spaces while leaving much of the structure exposed. To date, his projects have been small-scale, mostly concentrated in the Kansai region: a parking structure for bicycles (Cyclestation M), a public toilet facility in an outdoor park in Hyogo (Springtecture H), a railroad station (Transtation O), and a rural agricultural market (Rooftecture B). Responding to their standardized, industrial materials, Endo's projects carry generic names with repetitive suffixes and one-letter IDs, but their form is anything but generic - the projects resemble abstract sculpture more than they do architecture with regular geometries. Of his Springtecture H lavatory facility, Jonathan Glancey of "The Guardian" wrote: "This is a brilliant, unabashed swirl of galvanized corrugated metal, its loops and spirals derived from the structural logic of this malleable material." In addition to small-scale work, Endo has designed two larger competition entries, including an addition to an art museum in northeastern Japan (Springtecture A/Aomori project, 2000), and an addition to the headquarters of the World Intellectual Properties Organization in Geneva (Rooftecture W/Wipo Project, 2000). This book follows the format of Electa's series on contemporary architects, showcasing 32 of Endo's projects with concise project descriptions, colour photographs, plans, and drawings. It includes a complete illustrated list of projects and a biography.

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Since founding his own studio in the 1980s, Shuhei Endo (born 1960) has been concerned with creating architectural spaces out of continuous strips of material - most often rolled or corrugated steel - that encompass both roof and wall, looping and coiling to enclose interior spaces while leaving much of the structure exposed. To date, his projects have been small-scale, mostly concentrated in the Kansai region: a parking structure for bicycles (Cyclestation M), a public toilet facility in an outdoor park in Hyogo (Springtecture H), a railroad station (Transtation O), and a rural agricultural market (Rooftecture B). Responding to their standardized, industrial materials, Endo's projects carry generic names with repetitive suffixes and one-letter IDs, but their form is anything but generic - the projects resemble abstract sculpture more than they do architecture with regular geometries. Of his Springtecture H lavatory facility, Jonathan Glancey of "The Guardian" wrote: "This is a brilliant, unabashed swirl of galvanized corrugated metal, its loops and spirals derived from the structural logic of this malleable material." In addition to small-scale work, Endo has designed two larger competition entries, including an addition to an art museum in northeastern Japan (Springtecture A/Aomori project, 2000), and an addition to the headquarters of the World Intellectual Properties Organization in Geneva (Rooftecture W/Wipo Project, 2000). This book follows the format of Electa's series on contemporary architects, showcasing 32 of Endo's projects with concise project descriptions, colour photographs, plans, and drawings. It includes a complete illustrated list of projects and a biography.

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Imprint

Electaarchitecture

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Architectural Documents S.

Release date

June 2003

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First published

June 2003

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Dimensions

280 x 220 x 23mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

216

ISBN-13

978-1-904313-14-4

Barcode

9781904313144

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LSN

1-904313-14-0



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