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Itsuko Hasegawa: Selected and Current Works From the books introduction: There are many aspects to Itsuko Hasegawa's shift, in the last ten years from individual houses to a more social architecture - but at the very least, this shift has forced her to think of architecture from a different point of view and has made architecture very socially conscious. Hasegawa's work of the early 1980s was largely formal - a quest to understand, through form the conceptual framework in which architecture exists. But her architecture has changed considerable since then, starting with the Shonandai Cultural Center. With Shonandai she was able to take on problems of program that she couldn't address in houses ... she ran up against the disjunction between people's varied lifestyles and the process of building within a community. Shonandai was just an initial step; for Hasegawa herself, for defining community participation in architecture, and for developing a method of making public architecture. Itsuko Hasegawa: Selected and Currednt Works is part of The Master Architect Series. The over sized book consists almost entirely of photographs and blueprints for 21 buildings including Tokumaru Children's Clinic, Aono Building, Bizan Hall, Shonandai Cultural Center, Cona Village, STM House, Footwork Computer Center, Busshoji Elementary School, Oshima-Machin Picture Book Museum, Sumida Cultural Factor, Museum of Fruit in Yamanashi, The University of Shiga Prefecture Gymnasium, Cardiff Bay Opera House, Yokohama International Port Terminal, Niigata City Performing Arts Center and the Himi Seaside Botanical Garden. |
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