TRAVERSING THE HOUSE AND THE CITY / Kazuo Shinohara Ao-Hata Bookstore Guen Fiore

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TRAVERSING THE HOUSE AND THE CITY / Kazuo Shinohara Ao-Hata Bookstore Guen FioreKazuo Shinohara (19252006) was one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation. He created sublimely beautiful, purist houses that have reconfigured and enriched our understanding of domesticity, tradition, structure, scale, nature, and the city. The underlying formalism in Shinoharas architecture lends his work a poetic quality that fuses simplicity and surprise, the ordered and the unexpected. More than anyone else,