JA 115, Autumn 2019 Manabu Chiba
Content
JA 115 is a special issue dedicated to the architect Manabu Chiba. The projects featured in these pages total 24 works, and span from the time in which Chiba Manabu Architects was first established, in 2001, to the present. While Chiba’s wide range of work includes private residences, housing complexes, commercial facilities, schools, and town halls, he has always tried to extract the particular appeal of the locations where his buildings are constructed as well as the charm of the people who live and work in them.
This issue consists of three chapters that each correspond to one of Chiba’s methods: floor plans, studies, and photographs. Chiba pays close attention to floor plans as a starting point for his design thinking, while studies represent the trajectories of related explorations. Photographs, on the other hand, are snapshots of Chiba’s buildings as they are in actuality. We hope that readers will be able to get a real and substantial sense of how Chiba’s architecture takes shape, and that they will find joy in deciphering the ways in which his thinking develops—either one chapter at a time, or by going back and forth across the pages from one work to the next.
JA 115 Manabu Chiba includes:
Essays
Towards a minimization of the realm of expression
Jun Aoki
Planning from Our Body
Manabu Chiba
Works
Villa in Yatsugatake
MESH
STUDIO GOTENYAMA
Tokyo House UNAGI 001
House in Tomigaya
LOFT
House in Kataseyama
Home for ALL in Kitaamagi
House in Black
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WEEKEND HOUSE ALLEY
STITCH
TOKYO WEEKEND HOUSE
Otaki Town Hall
CHILDREN'S SITE
TSURUGA MULTIPURPOSE CENTER ORUPARK/STATION SQUARE
Villa in Setouchi
Hotel Project in Wulai
OMACHI 1ST PUBLIC HOUSING
TENJIN PUBLIC HOUSING
JAPAN GUIDE DOG CENTER "FUJI HARNESS"
Ishikawa Library Proposal
Kogakuin University 125th Memorial Education Center
Fuchu City Hall
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