Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2018.

Description:

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

Notes:
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 -- Landscaping, 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.
Recorded in London in July 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.

Subject:

Theater architecture.
Architectural design Japan.
Architecture des théâtres.
Design architectural Japon.
Architectural design.
Japan.

Added entries:

Hasegawa, Itsuko, narrator.
Kohashi, Sakiko, translator.