Before, After Image Koshirakura Landscape 1996-2006 - Softcover

Egashira, Shin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902902556 ISBN 13: 9781902902555

Verlag: Architectural Association Publications, 2011

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Each summer for the past ten years the AA's Shin Egashira has organized a workshop in the remote village of Koshirakura, in a mountainous region north of Tokyo. Each summer, the 81 mainly elderly inhabitants of the village are joined by a youthful horde of outsiders who become part of their lives for three weeks, occupying the empty schoolhouse, visiting their homes, and contributing to annual rituals such as the Grass-Cutting Day and Maple Tree Festival. When they leave at the end of their stay, the young people leave behind a structure designed to improve in some way the lives of the inhabitants. The past ten years have seen a gradual accumulation of extraordinary and strangely beautiful structures. Their singularity is hinted at by their names: Watermelon Platform, Bus Shelter, Roof for 200, Festival Vehicles, Azumaya, Stargazing Platform . . . Some structures were destroyed by the 2004 Mid-Niigata earthquake, but all are preserved here through photographs, drawings and words that document their making. Texts by Shin Egashira are paired with diary extracts- some poetic, some humorous- written by the students and villagers.

Biografía del autor

Shin Egashira is an architect, artist and Unit Master of the AA School of Architecture's Diploma Unit 11.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Architectural Association Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1902902556
• ISBN 13: 9781902902555
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228