a+u Architecture and Urbanism is a monthly architectural magazine established in 1971 that highlights the work and activities of top contemporary architects from around the world. a+u features architecture and a broad range of other new design sources in a well-presented format. Text is in English and Japanese bilingual. 1971年1月創刊。創刊以来、海外の建築情報を伝える日本唯一の月刊誌として、広く建築界に親しまれています。a+uの取材ネットワークは全世界に及び、100余カ国を網羅しています。これら各国の建築家を直接取材し、毎号独自の視点で編集することにより、生の動向をいち早く読者の皆様にお届けしています。また、建築家・評論家・歴史家による書き下ろし論文を掲載し、明日の建築のあり方を考える指針として国内外の建築界に多大な影響を与えています。
A+u Architecture and Urbanism
Preface
Introduction Essay: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” but not the 1970s
I. The Presumed Crisis of Meaning
White & Gray: Eleven Modern American Architects
Bye Residence 1972–1974
House VI
Office for Gunwyn Ventures
House in Connecticut 1973–1974
Franklin Court 1976
Vacation House in Maine, Edward Larrabee Barnes Maine, USA 1976 • A cluster of units with simple forms, finished in Shingle style using vernacular wood
Douglas House, Richard Meier Michigan, USA 1971–1973 • A collage of Le Corbusier’s horizontally layered house (Dom-Ino House) and his vertically layered house (Citrohan House)
Austrian Travel Agency, Main Office, Hans Hollein Vienna, Austria 1976–1978 • An interior space with an arrangement of various objects as metaphors that usher you on a journey
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Arata Isozaki Gunma, Japan 1974 • Taking a cue from the methodology of mannerism to develop the cube as a pure form.
Commentary: Architecture in 70s
II. The Real Crisis of Urban Theory
Essay reprint: An Analogical Architecture
Gallaratese Housing, Aldo Rossi Milan, Italy 1969–1972 • Using an architectural language of simple geometry to find a balance between past models and contemporary needs, and go beyond functionalism
Primary School in Fagnano Olona, Aldo Rossi Fagnano Olona, Italy 1975 • Creating a small city through a typology that transcends eras
San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, Aldo Rossi Modena, Italy 1971–1980 • A city for the dead, where tradition is revived by engaging with architecture, not through ideology, but memory
Theater of the World, Aldo Rossi Venice, Italy 1979 • A mobile, floating, and temporary and small theater for Venice: fragments and nostalgia
Church of the Sacra Famiglia, Paolo Portoghesi Salerno, Italy 1968–1974 • Creating a site based on the structure of a Roman baroque space
Essay reprint: Architecture and Building • The reconstruction of a collective language as demonstrated in the project for the Quartier de la Villette
The Middle School of Morbio Inferiore, Mario Botta Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland 1977 • Understanding scenery at a typological level: harmonizing and integrating landscapes of buildings and valleys
Banco Pinto and Sotto Mayor, Álvaro Siza Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal 1971–1974 • Adapting the volumes of a new building to the existing neighborhood, and integrating them through fragmentation and reorganization
Bouca Housing Complex, Álvaro Siza Porto, Portugal 1971–1974 • Responding to the context of the surrounding area, and reinterpreting a traditional architectural language
Essay reprint: To Catch a Precise Moment of Flittering Image in all its Shades
Alexandra Road Estate, Neave Brown London, UK 1979 • Project for residential buildings that reflect the crescent-shaped site
Student Housing, University of Louvain, Lucien Kroll Brussel, Belgium 1974 • Reflecting the wishes of local residents even in design decisions that were the prerogative of the architect, and creating a community
Central Beheer, Herman Hertzberger Apendoorn, Netherlands 1972...
