| Prada Aoyama Tokyo [With 32-Page Booklet in Japanese] Contributor(s): Celant, Germano (Editor), Prada, Miuccia (Editor), Bertelli, Patrizio (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 8887029261 ISBN-13: 9788887029260 Publisher: Fondazione Prada OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General |
| Physical Information: 1.33" H x 6.42" W x 8.42" (2.72 lbs) 385 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the Aoyama district of Tokyo, a mixed-use neighborhood of low-rise buildings where not a square meter of land has been left unoccupied, the Swiss architecture team of Herzog & de Meuron has built a new store for Prada. In this chunky, silvery book, they meticulously illustrate the creative process that led to the realization of "a house and a plaza," a tall and narrow kaleidoscope-like structure that houses a two-story retail space and multiple levels of offices, backed by an outdoor space for the public--a rarity in crowded Tokyo. The finished structure, encased in a visually porous shell or skin, is as decorative as it is architectural--or as architectural as it is decorative--and is both metaphorically and literally linked to its surrounding environment, and to the idea of the garment. Here is the story of a theoretically and structurally complex building told lovingly and simply by its architects, through words, models, sketches, photographs and architectural renderings. |