GA Architect 9: Shin Takamatsu by Riichi Miyake (ed. Yukio Futagawa; A.D.A. Edita Tokyo 1990) gives a thorough introduction to Takamatsu’s works 1975–89.
Many architects throughout history have regarded a building’s relationship to light as being the essence of architecture. Individuals of all kinds, enraptured by the light that pours down from the heavens and floods that atmosphere have designed buildings. it is scarcely necessary to go back to Plato’s Republic to know that light has always been an important medium, sanctifying man’s experience and elevating his spirit (…)
Shin Takamatsu is entirely different in character from such architects of light. He deliberately shuts out light and attempts to create dark, submerged spaces. He concerns himself with faint bits of radiance in settings of gloom as if the revealing light of day were distasteful to him. Takamatsu seems immersed in a world to which Mediterranean clarity and Californian optimism are equally alien.
– Riichi Miyake, Material and Ideational Excess. In: GA Architect 9: Shin Takamatsu (A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, 1990), p.8
The text is in English and Japanese. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings except for the previous owner’s stamps on the first flyleaf. There is some toning on the edges of the pages. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show some traces of shelf wear and use. There is a small index sticker on the front cover.
