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Yo Shimada: Everyday Design Everyday

Contemporary Architect’s Concept Series Vol. 22

Author
Yo Shimada
Publisher
LIXIL Publishing
Publication date
15 March 2016
Format
210 mm × 148 mm, softcover
Pages
160 pages, full colour
Language
Japanese / English bilingual
Price
1,800 yen + tax
ISBN
978-4-86480-021-1

Published as part of the Contemporary Architect’s Concept Series, this is Yo Shimada’s second single-authored book. Through a sequence of short texts, it traces ideas developed in the course of designing houses, taking as its cues pairs of words that seem at first contradictory: simple diversity, dynamic abstraction, heteronomous autonomy, large details, newly built ruins, staircases made of furniture.

A design concept is rarely assembled in a single sitting. Small observations made in the course of daily life encounter other observations found elsewhere, and only then does an idea take shape. To show this process as it happens, the book weaves diary entries written during design work and words received from clients overseas in among the essays. The title points to this circulation: the everyday work of designing houses, the everyday stages of life that houses become.

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