Name: HIROSAKI MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Architecture that Inherits Memories
SKU: 9784756254108
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HIROSAKI MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, which was built in a 100-year-old brick warehouse, is the first museum in Japan to be designed by internationally active Paris-based architect Tsuyoshi Tane.

This book reveals the whole picture of how Tane’s “architecture that inherits memories” was carried out.

An architectural concept derived from the history of Hirosaki, the transition of brick warehouses, and archaeological research. A record of a spectacular site where an existing building is dismantled, analyzed and restored. And this book will introduce the museum and the scenery of Hirosaki after completion. In addition, this book will approach the new approach of museum management that Hirosaki will transmit to the world, such as program composition and space usage.

This is the trajectory of the museum, which traces the revitalization of brick warehouses, while the good old scenery of Japan is lost, what kind of architecture will connect to the future.

*written in Japanese and English

Category：Japanese Architecture Book

Tag：contemporary art, Hirosaki, Museum

Pages：: 256
ISBN：: 9784756254108
Release Date:: July, 2022
Language:: Japanese & English
Publisher:: PIE International

Author profile

Tsuyoshi Tane

architect. Born in Tokyo in 1979.
Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Tokai University, Hokkaido in 2002.
In 2003, he was a visiting researcher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
He worked at Henning Larsen, David Ajay’s office,
He founded Drell Godme Tane (DGT) in Paris, France.
After 10 years of activity at DGT., He became independent as Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects in 2017.
Currently, many projects are underway around the world, mainly in Europe and Japan.
His major works include (2006–16), (2014–15),
(2014) (above DGT.), <(Tentative name) Hirosaki City Arts and Culture Facility> (2017–), etc.
Participated in the 2012 New National Stadium Basic Concept International Design Competition (when Zaha Hadid was selected),
He has gained international attention for being selected as a finalist at the Kofun Stadium.
He is the French Agency for Cultural Affairs Emerging Architect Award (2007), French Foreign Architecture Award Grand Prix (2016),
He has received numerous awards, including the 67th Art Award, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Newcomer Award (2017). He has been teaching at Columbia University GSAPP since 2012.