Akihisa Hirata

168 pages, Japanese/English

Running through Akihisa Hirata’s oeuvre is the concept of architecture as the creation of ‘karamarishiro’. This term, coined by Hirata, loosely translatable as “margin for entanglement”, denotes spaces that are not clearly delineated, but shot through by fuzzy interstices – spaces that are layered one upon the other and that may be considered to adjoin all things. Featuring 21 projects, this book examines the architectural embodiments of Hirata’s worldview through a blend of conceptual drawings, photographs, and texts. Notable works are the Masuya Building in Tokyo (2006), the prize-winning Art Museum & Library in Ota (2017), and the Nerima Art Museum and Nukui Library (2028).