Vitra - Het Umbrella House Project book

Vitra: het Umbrella House-project.

The Umbrella House Project traces the journey of this famous house, from the original plans and architectural drawings to photographs documenting the house in its first location in Tokyo.

The Umbrella House is a modern apartment building designed by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara, originally located in Tokyo in 1961. It has been moved and rebuilt since 2022 on the Vitra campus, in Germany

The Umbrella House is the smallest house of the Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006). This book tells the story of his unique masterpiece, first built in Tokyo in 1961. More than sixty years later, a stroke of luck saved the Umbrella House from demolition and moved it to a new location, where the is now on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany).

Author: Kazuo Shinohara, Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund
Language: English
Publication Year: 2023 / Bound Pages 120
Dimensions: 25 x 18.5 x 1.5 cm
ISBN number: 9783945852552