El Croquis 151: Sou Fujimoto 2003-2010

Timely and vital monograph on the work of Sou Fujimoto, featuring photographs, models, plans and texts on 19 stellar projects, plus an expansive interview with Ryue Nishizawa. Fujimoto established his own practice in 2000, initially pioneering his concept of ‘weak architecture’; the balancing of disparate elements to make ‘an order that incorporates uncertainty’. But there is nothing uncertain about Fujimoto’s current designs. Clean, rectilinear, graceful and harmonious, projects like House N with its exquisite internal garden, the extraordinary Final Wooden House, and many others collected here, represent the leading edge in Japanese architectural art – and make for a sumptuous, sometimes breathtaking publication.

Projects inckuded:
PRIMITIVE FUTURE HOUSE
DORMITORY FOR THE MENTALLY DISABLED, HOKKAIDO
CHILDREN’S CENTRE FOR PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION, HOKKAIDO
HOUSE 7/2, HOKKAIDO
ATELIER HOUSE, HOKKAIDO
HOUSE O, CHIBA
HOUSE N, OITA
FINAL WOODEN HOUSE
HOUSE BEFORE HOUSE
HOUSE NA, TOKYO
GARDEN HOUSE, TOCHIGI
HOUSE H, TOKYO
HOUSE OM, YOKOHAMA
TOKYO APARTMENT
MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY – MUSEUM & LIBRARY
BENETTON BUILDING, TEHERAN
EGYPT-JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DRAVA RIVER BRIDGE IN MARIBOR
A NEW LANDMARK FOR ALDGATE, LONDON