Niigata City Performing Arts Center: Rethinking Public Buildings in Japan / [presented by] Itsuko Hasegawa (Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier) and translated by Sakiko Kohashi.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Hasegawa, Itsuko, narrator.

Kohashi, Sakiko, translator.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Theater architecture.

Architectural design--Japan.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (36 minutes)): sound, color

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 2018.

Summary:

Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa, best known for public buildings such as the Sumida Culture Factory in Tokyo (1994), the Yamanashi Museum Of Fruit (1994) and the Suzu Performing Arts Center in Ishikawa (2006), founded her practice Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier in 1979. Well respected in her home country, but little known abroad, her early influences include fellow Japanese architects Kazuo Shinohara and the Metabolist Kiyonori Kikutake. In 2018, she was the first recipient of the Royal Academy Architecture Prize; the jury praising her as an architect of great talent, as yet under recognised. In this talk, Hasegawa describes her design for the Niigata City Performing Arts Center (1998). She explains how an understanding of the landscape, and an ongoing engagement with local people was central to her design process. This approach, which she pioneered with the Shonandai Cultural Center (1990), has helped to shift attitudes towards the design of public buildings in Japan.

Contents:

Itsuko Hasegawa

Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Site Plan, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Landscaping, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Main Building Viewed Across The Water, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Landscape Viewed From Inside The Main Building, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Plan Of Main Building, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Theatre, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Section, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Concert Hall, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

First Floor Lobby, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Night View Of Main Building, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Traditional Japanese Theatre, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1998

Shonandai Culture Center, Kanagawa, Japan By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 1990

Visualisation, Caohejing Office Project, Shanghai, China By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 2014

Caohejing Office Project, Shanghai, China By Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier, 2014.

Notes:

Recorded in London in July 2018.

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 30, 2021).

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