描述
This monograph presents work by Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata and is divided into three parts: Discovering New Form, Discovering New Nature, Discovering New Commitment. According to the architect, new things are an essential part of life. Yet his concept of “new” is not meant as something that is completely unknown, without any connection to the past. Rather, he intends to actualise things that already exist but remain hidden, and in the process discover the essence of living through architecture as a new form of nature, imbued with a previously unseen wildness. The book features a selection of more than 20 concepts, designs, and realised projects, plus texts by Hirata.
008 Foreword
011 Discovering New Form
028 Taipei Complex
040 Foam Form
046 Coil
054 Kamaishi Project
064 Gallery S
072 Architecture Farm
080 Tree-ness House
097 Discovering New Nature
112 Alp
124 House of House
130 One-roof Apartment
138 Higashi-Totsuka Church
146 House H
150 Masuya
158 Bloomberg Pavilion
168 Photosynthesis
174 Long House182 9hours Project
195 Discovering New Commitment
212 Taipei Roofs
220 Museum Forest of “”Hill Valley””
228 Overlap House
240 Sarugaku
248 Art Museum & Library, Ota
268 Itukushima Roof
272 Afterword: Toward the Intelligence of the Jungle
274 Project Data
278 Biography
279 Credits / Staff List
