Terunobu Fujimori Works

Terunobu Fujimori Works

TIC HCM 1
TIC HN 1
Category Industrial Architecture
Author Terunobu Fujimori
Language English - Japanese
Publishing year 2020
Publishing company TOTO Publishing
ISBN ISBN = 978-4-88706-385-3
Size 295 x 300 mm
Number of pages 336
Description of contents

The definitive collection of architectural works by Terunobu Fujimori continues his three activities of architectural history, road observation, and architectural design. From his shocking debut work as an architect of the Jinchokan Moriya Museum to his recent work La Kane no Collina Omihachiman, almost all of his works are introduced with commentaries, sketches, and photographs by Akihisa Masuda. In addition, his design and construction method using the "wooden monocoque" received a surge in design requests overseas after exhibiting at the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2006, will be revealed. The book included the Contributions of Shinbo Minami and the late Genpei Akasegawa. A book condenses the charm of Fujimori architecture.

Terunobu Fujimori

Terunobu Fujimori was in 1946 in Nagano Prefecture. He graduated from Nagano Prefectural Suwa Seiryo High School in 1965. In 1971 he graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University. In 1978, he completed the doctoral course at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Architecture. In 1980 he received his doctorate in engineering from the University of Tokyo. In 1982, he became a full-time lecturer at the Institute of Industrial Science, at the University of Tokyo. 1985 Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. 1998 Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. In 2010 he was a Professor at Kogakuin University. He is the director of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, and a specially appointed professor at Kogakuin University.
Awards: City Planning Institute of Japan Outstanding Paper Award (1981), 37th Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (1983), 9th Tokyo Municipal Research Council Fujita Award, 1986 Suntory Prize for Arts and Sciences (1986), 29th Japan Art Award, Japan Received Architectural Institute of Japan Award for Outstanding Paper (1998), Architectural Institute of Japan Award for Best Work (2001), 2002 1st Mainichi Book Review Award.

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