Hitoshi Abe
The first monograph in English on one of Japan’s most promising young architects.
Naomi Pollock
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- The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Hitoshi Abe (b.1962), one of the most interesting of Japan's new generation of architects
- Abe's architecture is internationally renowned for its structural innovation and spatial complexity, and in 2007 he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles
- Includes all Abe's major works from the 1990s to the present, including the Miyagi Stadium, Rifu (2000), Reihoku Community Hall (2002) – for which he won the Architectural Institute of Japan Award in 2003 – and the Kanno Museum, Shiogama (2006)
- Every project is illustrated with a wealth of interior and exterior photographs, as well as drawings by the architect and computer renderings
- Explores Abe's distinctive aesthetic in detail, which combines an emphasis on everyday use with innovative engineering solutions
- Hardback
- English
- 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in
- 208 pp
- 300 colour illustrations, 50 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714846651
- ISBN-10: 0714846651
Hitoshi Abe (b.1962) is widely considered to be one of the most interesting among the new generation of emerging Japanese architects. After graduating from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, he worked in the Los Angeles office of Coop Himmelb(l)au before obtaining his PhD from Tohoku University and setting up his own practice, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, in Sendai, Japan. Since the practice was established in 1992, Abe has won a wide variety of commissions across the country. He has also taught at several architecture schools, including the Tohoku Institute of Technology, the University of California Berkeley, and the University of California Los Angeles, where he is currently Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
This is the first monograph on Hitoshi Abe to be published in English. It features 26 projects realised in the last 15 years, covering a broad range of building types. Projects include Miyagi Stadium, Reihoku Community Hall, Kanno Museum, Yomiuri Media Miyagi Guest House and the F-town Building. Written by Naomi Pollock, an authority on Japanese design and architecture, this book is an essential reference work on this promising young architect.
Naomi Pollock has been writing about design in Japan since 1989. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Dwell, Interior Design, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Architectural Record, for whom she is the Special International Correspondent. She is the author of Phaidon’s Modern Japanese House.
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