The SANAAs Studios 2006-2008 Cover

Florian Idenburg, Princeton University School of Architecture (eds.)

The SANAA Studios 2006–2008

Learning from Japan: Single Story Urbanism

During three spring seasons between 2006 and 2008, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, founders of the Pritzker prize winning architecture studio SANAA, taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton. The SANAA Studios explored Japan's contemporary society as a context for architecture and considered its particular perspective on space, the personal and the public realm. Design exercises were situated within the specific demographics and social variables of three distinct sites in Japan.

This book forms an attempt to capture the atmosphere in which the studios were conducted and register some of the findings gained out of exploring the office, its methods and its context. As an overall thematic it asks: What can we learn from SANAA? It tries to frame SANAA’s compassionate search for new architectures within a larger societal context. It combines analyses, essays, documentary, design proposals and “objets trouvé” within one book. For this publication, Iwan Baan, Dutch architectural photographer, has revisited the 3 sites where the studios took place to capture the spirit of its context and the SANAA buildings in use.

During three spring seasons between 2006 and 2008, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, founders of the Pritzker prize winning architecture studio SANAA, taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton. The SANAA Studios explored Japan's contemporary society as a context for architecture and considered its particular perspective on space, the personal and the public realm. Design exercises were situated within the specific demographics and social variables of three distinct sites in Japan.

This book forms an attempt to capture the atmosphere in which the studios were conducted and register some of the findings gained out of exploring the office, its methods and its context. As an overall thematic it asks: What can we learn from SANAA? It tries to frame SANAA’s compassionate search for new architectures within a larger societal context. It combines analyses, essays, documentary, design proposals and “objets trouvé” within one book. For this publication, Iwan Baan, Dutch architectural photographer, has revisited the 3 sites where the studios took place to capture the spirit of its context and the SANAA buildings in use.

Edited by Florian Idenburg, Princeton University School of Architecture

With photographs by Iwan Baan

Design: Geoff Han

21,6 x 28,0 cm, 8 ½ x 11 in

144 pages, 240 illustrations

paperback

2010, 978-3-03778-190-6, English
CHF 270.00
Out of print

Florian Idenburg

SO-IL

Florian Idenburg (*1975) is a founding partner at SO–IL and Professor of the Practice at Cornell University AAP. Idenburg is an internationally renowned Dutch architect with over two decades of professional experience. After learning the ropes in Amsterdam and Tokyo, he founded SO–IL in 2008 together with Jing Liu. His years of working in cross-cultural settings make Florian a thoughtful and collaborative partner. He has a particularly strong background in institutional spaces, leading the office on projects as Kukje Gallery and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis as well as Amant in Brooklyn. A frequent speaker at institutions around the world, he has taught at Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and Princeton University and is currently a Professor of Practice at Cornell University. In 2010, Idenburg received the Charlotte Köhler Prize from the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund.