KAZUO SHINOHARA / THE UMBRELLA HOUSE PROJECT PARKSTONE PARKSTONE interviews with influential designers and

interviews with influential designers and architects

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the masks—long a signature of Takahashi’s shows—aim to counterbalance the preciousness of his exquisitely crafted designs by contrasting them with the brutal reality of the here and now

the Notre-Dame du Haut chapel is also an example of a work linking the past and the present

KAZUO SHINOHARA / THE UMBRELLA HOUSE PROJECT PARKSTONE PARKSTONE interviews with influential designers andThe Umbrella House is the smallest residential home by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (19252006). This book tells the story of his unique masterpiece, which was first built in Tokyo in 1961. More than sixty years later, a stroke of good fortune made it possible to save the Umbrella House from demolition and move it to a new location, where it now stands on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany). The wooden houses post and