Old is new : architectural works by New Material Research Laboratory / Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tomoyuki Sakakida ; [translations, Giles Murray, Polly Barton, Matt Treyvaud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948- author, artist, photographer.

Sakakida, Tomoyuki, 1976- author, architect.

杉本博司, 1948- author, artist, photographer.

Contributor:

Murray, Giles, translator.

Barton, Polly (Translator), translator.

Treyvaud, Matt, translator.

Shinsozai Kenkyūjo, architect.

New Material Research Laboratory, architect.

新素材研究所, architect.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Japanese.

Sakakida, Tomoyuki, 1976-.

Sakakida, Tomoyuki.

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948-.

Sugimoto, Hiroshi.

Shinsozai Kenkyūjo.

New Material Research Laboratory.

Architecture, Japanese--21st century.

Architecture--Japan--History.

Architecture.

Japan.

History.

Architecture and technology.

Art and architecture.

Building materials.

Remanufacturing.

Physical Description:

399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Other Title:

Shinsoken

新素研

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

"The oldest things are the newest" --this paradoxical idea is present throughout the oeuvre of contemporary Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2008, Sugimoto and the architect Tomoyuki Sakakida founded the New Material Research Laboratory, an architectural firm that researches and develops "new materials" from known materials and techniques by applying a different approach and interpretation. The Laboratory's aim is to rethink the use of old materials passed on to us from ancient times, the Middle Ages and the modern period. It advocates for a reconnection of the present with a bygone era, and to extend that connection to the future through architecture.

ISBN:

3037786469

9783037786468

OCLC:

1223070889