JA 108, Winter 2018 Akihisa Hirata
Content
JA 108 is a special issue on architect Akihisa Hirata, surveying 15 years of his studio’s architectural production.
For Hirata, architecture is part of the living world. In his practice, he explores this notion through geometric systems, spatial design methods that incorporate diversity, and the implementation of concepts arising from research into organic connections—notably karamari (an “intertwined relationship”) and karamari-shiro (an “opportunity for karamari”). Working at various scales, he continues to propose new settings for human activities.
This issue introduces about 60 projects, including built architecture, installations, and unrealized proposals, dating from 2003 to the present. From one work to the next, he has developed new ideas and explored the realities of building architecture. We hope that our readers will find hints in these pages to aid in their own explorations of the architecture to come.
JA 108 Akihisa Hirata includes:
Dialogue
Toward Jagged Diversity
Shohei Shigematsu and Akihisa Hirata
Monologue
The Wild and Savage Future of Architecture
Akihisa Hirata
Project Timeline
Works
Art Museum & Library, Ota
Tree-ness House
Taipei Roofs
Overlap House
Itsukushima Roof
Timber Foam
Cloud of the Future
Long House hotel version
Taipei Complex
Fermented House
Kamaishi Nursery School
Higashi-Totsuka Church
Alps Tree
Grobal Cave
Häm
Museum Forest of “Hill Valley”
Higashi-Totsuka Church
Kotoriku
Cloud and Slope
Invisible Lines
Long Garden
Soil
Fermented Tower
Kamaishi City Disaster Recovery Public Housing
Taipei Complex previous version
LEXUS -amazing flow-
Mori Trust Garden TORA4
Kikusui Elementary and Junior High School
Home-for-All
Flow_er
Coil
Hotel J
Photosynthesis
Bloomberg Pavilion
Garden within Grid within Garden
Long House
Yoshioka Library
Foam Form
Prism Liquid
Alp
One Roof Apartment
Fermented City
Flame Frame
Animated Knot
Pavilion C
Pleated Sky
Architecture Farm
Sarugaku
OORDER
House of House (House T)
House S
Gallery S
Chair “Csh”
Bag for F
Pleats Principle
Project K
R-Minamiaoyama
Masuya
House H
Annaka Art Forum
