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Fuminori Nousaku: Edifice of the Wild

Contemporary Architect's Concept Series

Fuminori Nousaku: Edifice of the Wild

  • Japanese
  • English
Price : 1,800 yen (before tax)
Specification : 210mm × 148mm
Paperback
160p
Japanese/English
ISBN
978-4-86480-052-5

Published : January, 2021

As architect Fuminori Nousaku's first solo publication, Contemporary Architect's Concept Series 29 probes the young architect's mind for architectural methods for 1) residential and urban development that factors in ecosystems and the global environment, 2) off-grid homes powered by solar energy, 3) architecture and landscaping that restore soil health, 4) ecological design that plans for circulation of materials from production to disposal, and more.



Nousaku has focused his attention on the myriad building materials used in developing cityscapes. He has meanwhile attracted attention himself for disassembling, repairing, and relocating the 40-year-old, tile-roofed Takaoka Guesthouse (2013), as well as for taking the urban commodity that is a pre-owned home, opening it up with numerous holes--hence the name Holes in the House: Urban Wild Ecology--and continuing to rebuild it in a life-giving layout as a mixed-use residence-cum-office (2017). With these works and more, Fuminori Nousaku strives to make architecture a new kind of ecosystem that incorporates an extensive range of design requirements on the topics of land and its history, materials and resources, lifestyles, and the housing industry and social system. With 16 chapters brimming with grand scales and detailed thought, Edifice in Wildness presents the system in which 21st century architecture must take part.



-Fuminori Nousaku


Architect. President of Fuminori Nousaku Architects. Born in Toyama prefecture, 1982. Studied at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture and Building Engineering. Obtained master's degree from the same institution and later a doctorate in engineering. Assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Environment and Society from 2012 to 2018. Associate professor at Tokyo Denki University School of Science and Technology for Future Life since 2018. Received special mention for the Japan Pavilion exhibition in 2016 at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. Selected to exhibit at the Japan Pavilion in 2019 for the 58th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia.


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