Mira Locher

Super Potato Design (eBook, ePUB)

The Complete Works of Takashi Sugimoto: Japan's Leading Interior Designer
Fotograf: Shiratori, Yoshio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Super Potato Design is the first full-length book to present the work and conceptual ideas of the internationally renowned Japanese design firm Super Potato, founded by Takashi Sugimoto.

Super Potato's powerful designs for the interiors of restaurants, shops and hotels, as well as Takashi Sugimoto's designs for tea ceremony spaces and utensils, are richly complex compositions of materials which create simple, strong spaces.

Using traditional Japanese building materials such as bamboo, wood, and stone, but crating original yet timeless spaces, Super Potato's designs avoid specific stylistic characterizations and short-lived fashion. By finding contemporary expression for important concepts present in traditional Japan and combining materials in unexpected ways to create exciting spaces, Super Potato's work has had a significant impact on interior design in Japan and throughout Asia.

Super Potato Design is generously illustrated with 320 full-color photographs by the respected Japanese photographer Yoshio Shiratori, who has recorded Super Potatos projects since the firm's conception in 1973. Architect and Japan scholar Mira Locher introduces the ideas and influences of Takashi Sugimoto, the founder and principle designer of Super Potato, and provides a thorough explanation of each project. Architectural drawings further describe the projects. A forward by Tadao Anso, interviews between Takashi Sugimoto and architect Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama, and also graphic designer Kenya Hara, explore the ideas relevant to Japanese designers today. A list of the Complete Works of Super Potato rounds off the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781462906048
• Artikelnr.: 37910688

Autorenporträt

Mira Locher is an architect and educator who works in the U.S., Canada and Japan. She studied at Smith College before receiving her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After working for Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Japan, she set up an architectural practice in the U.S. with Takayuki Murakami (www.kajikaarchitecture.com). She is dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba and the author of many books including Japanese Architecture, Zen Gardens and Zen Garden Design. Takashi Sugimoto (1945-2018), born in Tokyo in 1945, studied metal sculpture and graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He founded Super Potato in 1973 and became a professor at Musashino University of Fine Arts in 1992. He received the Mainichi Design Award in 1985 and 1986, as well as the Interior Design Association Award in 1992. Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame inductee in 2008. Yoshio Shiratori was born in Tokyo in 1938 and graduated from the Photography Department of the School of Fine Arts of Nihon University in 1960. He founded his own photo production company, ZOOM!, in 1973. In 1988, he received the 1987 Japan Interior Designers' Association Award. Tadao Ando is one of the world's leading architects, winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize. As a young man, Ando worked as a boxer then decided to become an architect after being inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. Entirely self-taught, he established Tadao Ando Architects & Associates in 1968.