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Hitoshi Abe (b. 1962) is one of the most important rising figures in contemporary Japanese architecture. After graduating from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, he worked in the cutting-edge architecture practice Coop Himmelb(l)au before establishing his own studio, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, in Sendai, Japan. He has received international recognition for his bold architecture, and has taught at Tohoku Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley and University of California Los Angeles.
This is the first monograph on Hitoshi Abe to be published in English. Featuring 26 projects that include stadia, museums, bridges and private houses, each building is discussed in detail and accompanied by photographs, computer renderings and concept drawings.
Author Notes
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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Library Journal Review
One of the younger exponents of Japanese modernism, Hitoshi Abe may be the Philip Johnson of the 21st century, eclectically bridging European and Asian practices. His cool, refined, highly articulate-yet often derivative-work relates with great intelligence to the formal concerns of his modernist antecedents Alvar Aalto, Erich Mendelsohn, Kenzo Tange, Glenn Murcutt, and Tadao Ando. But whether working with structural expressionism, volumetric rhythm, or surface texture, Abe brings to each of his designs attention to detail, geometric precision, and a mastery of light. Pollock (Modern Japanese House) uses three conceptual sections-line, surface, and volume-to classify each of 26 projects, which she describes perhaps more in promotional than critical terms. Fifty high-quality, black-and-white and 300 color photographs illustrate each building entry, and small plans, sections, and conceptual diagrams (essentially isometric projections) add value to the graphic material. As the recently appointed chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, Abe will influence American design education increasingly. An important addition, then, to architecture school library collections.-Paul Glassman, Felician Coll. Lib., Lodi, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
