Resumen de Five forms of emotion: Kazuo Shinohara and the house as a work of art
This research presents the work of the Japanes e architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and studies five of his residential des igns as epitome of his oeuvre. lts development is understood as a continuous quest to reconcile two key elements , the house and the city,in order to put emotion al the heart of domestic space. These two elements were present in his preoccupations from the beginning of his career but he only managed to merge them in his last designs.
lt is based on the ass umption that this is one of the first in-depth research studies developed beyond the conventional segmentation and explanation of his work. lt thus considers it more important to open new perspectives on Shinohara's oeuvre than to foc us exclusively on one of them .a task that might be pursued later on.
Analyzing sorne of Shinohara's first writings and using as a starting point his simultaneous design of two very different houses, House in \Nhite and House of Earth (1964-1966),this thes is delineates a connecting line among three more choice projects s panning 20 years of practice, thus shedding a new light on Shinohara's design methods and helping explain their unity behind their apparent dissimilarities: Tanikawa House (1972-1974), House in Uehara (1975-1976) and House in Yokohama (1982-1984).
After a general description of Shinohara's relevance and main ideas on tradition, domestic ity and the city, it continues with the argumentation of why a certain group of projects has been left out of this research and analyzes the five projects of this evolution,pointing out their common traits and their cons istency w ith the general exploration about the house as a work of art started by Shinohara in 1964.
Further originalcontributions of this thes is to the field of Shinohara's studies consist in the trans lation for the ti rst time into Englis h of a founding article, "The House is Art" (196 1), and an abridged vers ion of "Subjectivityof Residential Design" (1964) ,and the reproduction of a previous ly unpublis hed text by Shinoha ra, "A Discourse On Tokyo; From Tokyo, Via Kazuo Shinohara: An Objective" (1998). In a separate vo lume this thes is incorporates the original construction designs for the five houses, with English captions.
