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Koshirakura Landscape Workshop. In Search of Context: Working With The Force Of Erasure
Author(s) -
Egashira Shin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1877
Subject(s) - inscribed figure , architecture , context (archaeology) , unit (ring theory) , work (physics) , landscape architecture , geography , face (sociological concept) , history , archaeology , civil engineering , engineering , sociology , social science , mechanical engineering , mathematics education , mathematics , geometry
Since 1996, Shin Egashira , a unit master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, has been leading the Koshirakura Landscape Workshop as part of the AA's Visiting School programme. The village of Koshirakura is in the remote, rural and mountainous region of Niigata on the northwest coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Egashira describes some of the projects that have been realised over the years and how they work with the extreme climatic conditions that reveal ‘architecture as an art form where frictions between community and climatic forces are inscribed as life expressions on the face of the landscape’.