Seiichi Shirai: Text | Inversion

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Seiichi Shirai (1905-1983) forged a singular architecture that revelled in dialectic and contradiction, one that continues to be prized by clients and users but has resisted theorization within the standard genealogies of the discipline. At once highly inventive in form and profusely evocative of premodern European and Japanese precedents, Shirai's work was also intimately bound up with his passionate interests in book design, antique artifacts, calligraphy, and typography. This book aims to unravel the rich structural logic guiding Shirai's design strategies in two essays by Maki Iisaka around the themes of text and inversion. Complementing these essays are 88 photographs by David Kerr that offer an intense personal engagement with a number of the architect's extant buildings.

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