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  • Career Case Studies #11: Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男)

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    CHRONOLOGICAL

    • Architectural Intelligence
    • The Stacked Courtyard
    • The Middle Ground
    • Game On!
    • About Face!
    • Defensible Space
    • Feasibility Study
    • The Outback
    • Featurism
    • Contempt for History
    • Sky Rectangle
    • What is a Megastructure?
    • “In which brand shall we build?”
    • Keeping it Real
    • Split Systems
    • The Art Extension
    • Parallel History
    • Architecture Myths #33: Served and Servant Spaces
    • Chinese Simple Made
    • Career Case Studies #11: Kunio Maekawa (前川 國男)
    • Fit for Purpose
    • Design: Free at Last!
    • Professional Development
    • Architecture Misfit #41: Kiyoshi Seike
    • Externalization
    • Mock 3D Printing
    • The Emotional Layer
    • The 2’nd Misfits’ Trienniale: WEEK 3
    • Going Outside
    • The 2’nd Misfits’ Trienniale: WEEK 2
    • Formative Furniture
    • Houses for Parents
    • Microhome
    • Career Case Study #12: Antonin Raymond
    • Tree Green
    • Lo-Res Architecture
    • Architecture Myths #32: Representation
    • Pasadena Heights v3.0
    • Non-Referential Architecture
    • An Architecture of Sharing
    • Customization
    • Formative Sections
    • Learning From Tower Clusters
    • 12 Months
    • Architecture Myths #28: Self-Sufficiency
    • Performance Anxiety
    • Associative Design
    • Four Walls and a Roof
    • Mallville
    • Formative Houses
    • Misfits’ Guide to NANTONG
    • Perspective
    • Infinite Monkey Architecture
    • The Fabric of Space
    • Wearable Architecture
    • Learning From Shikumen
    • The Not-so-elevated Road
    • The Elevated Road
    • Death of an Architect
    • The Gentle Mashup
    • Art Vacuum
    • The Future of BIM as an Active Driver of Industry Change (Part 2)
    • The Future of BIM as an Active Driver of Industry Change
    • New Ugly vs. New Cute
    • The Demise of the Idea
    • Architecture Myths #31: Synthesis
    • Infrastructure as Landscaping
    • Shikumen (石库门)
    • New Squeeze
    • The Space Between Apartments
    • Automatic Design
    • Notes on Scale
    • Simple Construction
    • Moneymaking Machines #7: Absolute Towers
    • Playing it like it is
    • The 3 R’s
    • The Rebound Effect
    • Architecture Myths #30: Analysis
    • Another Level
    • Second Time Around
    • Expectations Exceeded
    • Aesthetic Efficiency
    • The Gardened City
    • Misfits’ Guide to SHANGHAI
    • Architecture Myths #29: The Problem
    • Mall World
    • ZHA@MAM, Shanghai
    • My Best Shots
    • Architecture & Engineering
    • Wind Tower
    • The Art of Writing
    • Reading The City
    • That First Idea
    • Handshake Hotel
    • The Handshake House
    • The Handshake Apartment
    • Retirement Plan
    • Food Stuff
    • Closed Systems
    • Architecture Myths #27: Individuality
    • Architecture Myths #26: Flexibility
    • Heroes & Villains
    • Waste in China
    • The Asakura House
    • Machine for Living Many
    • The Function of Architecture
    • Incremental Improvements
    • Plan Without Qualities
    • The Dispersed Apartment
    • Architecture Misfit #40: Riken Yamamoto
    • Deck Access
    • 16 Types of Beauty
    • Moneymaking Machines #6: King Toronto
    • The Historic Façade
    • Orientation
    • More Words
    • The Department Store
    • The Dispersed House
    • HOME WORK
    • Words and Buildings
    • Design Reformation
    • Comfort Zone Part II
    • Comfort Zone
    • Notes & Exceptions
    • New Mews (2/2)
    • New Mews (1/2)
    • NOTSOF [p.1-11]
    • F: ASSOCIATE
    • The Terrace
    • 3D Printers in History
    • The Rooftop
    • E: DESIGNATE
    • COLOURBLIND
    • Career Case Study #9: Juliaan Lampens
    • Architecture Misfit #39: Juliaan Lampens
    • D: CONFLATE
    • Antisocial House
    • Rubin Observatory
    • End of the Road
    • C: JUXTAPOSE
    • RAW
    • Habitat Compensation Island
    • Architecture Misfits #38: The Unknown Architect
    • B: INTEGRATE
    • TEN
    • Mission Statement
    • The Podium Building
    • A: DIFFERENTIATE
    • It’s Just Design
    • Property Supplement
    • Claude Megson
    • 9: ASSIMILATE
    • Parable
    • Stock Market
    • What’s Already There
    • 8: ALIENATE
    • Reconstructivism
    • The Active Band
    • The Uncompleted
    • 7: MERGE
    • The Aftermath
    • Architecture In The Emirates
    • Compliance
    • 6: DISGUISE
    • Going Up and Down
    • Detention
    • Pre-Carbon Copy
    • 5: COMBINE
    • Spiral Binding
    • Carbon Offset
    • Motion Sickness
    • 4: EXTRACT
    • The Factory
    • Confidence
    • ALFA-X
    • 3: ATTACH
    • Architecture Misfit #37: Luke Him Sau
    • Mad For Mars
    • 1965–1980 Japan
    • 2: DETACH
    • How To Leave a Company
    • Misfits’ Guide to VIENNA
    • Space Merchants
    • 1: UNITE
    • Arboreal Angst
    • Triennale Hang-over
    • The 1’st Misfits’ Trienalle
    • 0: SEPARATE
    • Let’s Dance!
    • The Will of the Epoch (2/2)
    • The Oval
    • The Architecture of Architectures (2007~)
    • Architecture Misfit #36: Ricardo Bofill
    • The Will of the Epoch (1/2)
    • Architecture Myths #25: The Creative Spark
    • The 2007 Draft: Derivation
    • 1950–1965 Australia
    • The Core
    • The Unsmart Home
    • The 2007 Draft: Preface
    • Vehicles for Fame
    • 100 IDEAS
    • Parklife
    • The 2007 Draft: Introduction
    • The Artless Plan
    • Something In The Air
    • Aesthetic Fitness
    • The Architecture of Architectures
    • The Nature of Things
    • Architecture Misfit #35: Edwin Lutyens
    • Divide & Conquer
    • Media Studies
    • Bauhaus Fatigue
    • The Notebooks of Ludwig Kurz
    • The Cycle of Cold
    • The Odd Angle
    • Architecture of Innocence
    • Neo-Futurism
    • School of Life
    • Streets In The Sky
    • Art As Houses
    • The Edge of Space
    • Clever Solutions
    • Concept Conflict
    • Existential Anxieties
    • List of Topics
    • Absence of Criminal Intent
    • The Boarding House
    • Building Nature
    • Architecture Misfits #34: The Sole Practitioner
    • Final Reductions!
    • The Architect as Ornament
    • The Universal Apartment
    • The Open Bathroom
    • Indexed Memory
    • Living as Art
    • The Uncompleted Apartments
    • Architecture Misfit #33: Josef Frank
    • Living on top of one another
    • Houses as Art
    • AD Louvre vs. LV Foundation
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecure Vol. I
    • Architecture Misfit #32: Kazuhiko Namba
    • An Ordinary Beauty
    • Misfits’ Guide to MUNICH
    • ART IN SPACE!
    • The MUJI House
    • The Catalogue House
    • The Piano Equivalent
    • Misfits’ Guide to BRUSSELS
    • Grading Criteria
    • The Grand Tour
    • Tall Food
    • The Inflexible House
    • The Atomium
    • Misfits’ @ JESTER
    • The Hexagon [a eulogy]
    • Good in theory?
    • Living Above Shops
    • Community
    • Spatial Practice
    • “Everything is Architecture” [a rant]
    • The Formalist Canon
    • Career Case Study #10: Yo Shimada
    • The Old Guard and The New Decency
    • The Spaces Between Buildings
    • History Repeating #1: Tragedy
    • Criticalifragilistic*
    • Architecture Misfit #31: Kenji Hirose
    • Teaching & Learning
    • Models of Instruction
    • Caravanserai
    • Career Case Study #9: José Oubrerie
    • The History of Forgetting
    • A Consistency of Contradictions
    • Naked Houses
    • A New Formalism
    • The Landscraper
    • The Vertical City
    • Urban Carpet vs. Mat City
    • Making Strange
    • Unimagining the Brick
    • The Extruded Mat Building
    • Misfits’ Guide to HONG KONG
    • Madame Butterfly
    • The Sheltering Sky
    • The New Inhumanism
    • Architecture Misfit #30: Robert Mallet-Stevens
    • Architecture Myths #24: Beauty vs. Everything Else
    • Misfits’ Guide to PARIS
    • The Landscape Within
    • Modern Vernacular
    • Meta-Aesthetics
    • Property, Time & Architecture
    • Detective Story
    • The Piano and the Double-Sided Apartment
    • Clarity & Consistency in Architecture
    • Architecture Misfit #29: Fernand Pouillon
    • The Massively Big Autopoiesis of Architecture Post
    • Благоустройство
    • Twelve Books on Architecture
    • Plan B
    • The Fireplace
    • US 7,540,120
    • The Domino’s House
    • Career Case Study #8: Gio Ponti
    • Talking Shop
    • Fast Tracking
    • The Shape of Green
    • Misleading Narratives
    • Architecture Misfit #28: Harold Krantz
    • Repeating Crevice Revisted
    • Architecture Misfits #27: The Analog Student
    • Architecture Myths #23: Architecture
    • The Expansible Home
    • Misfits’ Guide to PERTH
    • The Inscrutable Apartment
    • Burden of Proof
    • Need To Know
    • Modest Megastructures
    • Learning Curve
    • Ignorance is Bliss
    • Buildings That Lean
    • Different Strokes
    • Brands as Architectural Legacy
    • Keeping it Real
    • Architcture Misfits #26: Asnago Vender
    • HIGH-RISE
    • Architecture Misfit #25: Ernst May
    • Misfits’ Guide to MILAN
    • Living the Dream
    • Architecture Misfits #24: Rural Studio
    • Waste in Venice
    • Downmarketly Mobile
    • Misfits’ Guide to VENICE
    • Pilotis
    • Lobby Living
    • 1930: De-urbanism
    • Critical Spatiality
    • Architecture Misfit #23: André Lurçat
    • Career Case Study #7: Serge Chermayeff
    • Misfits’ Guide to DUBAI
    • Generic Functionality
    • Skin Deep
    • Machines for Living Longer
    • Waterworld
    • Machine for Living
    • Decorative CMU
    • Architecture Misfits #22: H Arquitectes
    • The Dacha
    • Houses or Hotels
    • The Free Facade
    • Architecture Misfit #21: Tōgō Murano
    • Career Case Study #6: Ivan Illich Leonidov
    • Pietro Lingeri and the New Realism
    • Imagery as Architecture
    • Home Improvement
    • The 1+1/2 Floor Apartment
    • The Mat Building
    • The Key Worker and the Tenure Divide
    • The Parametric Bottom Line
    • The Passivehaus Diet
    • Co-living
    • Living Together
    • Architecture Misfit #20: Edward T. Potter
    • Misfits’ Guide to NEW YORK
    • After Architecture
    • The Sheep Shed
    • Moneymaking Machines #5: 100 East 53’rd Street
    • Architectural Assimilation
    • Architecture Reductions
    • Conceptual Continuity
    • Architecture Myths #22: Biomimesis
    • The Things Architects Do #10: Pull Out All Stops
    • Career Case Study #5: Richard Leplastrier
    • Advance of the Sheds
    • Architecture Misfit #19: Illarion Ivanov-Schitz
    • The New Japanese House
    • Future Nature
    • Architecture Myths #21: Total Design
    • Honorary Architecture Misfits: Bernd and Hilla Becher
    • The Lighthouse is Not Trying to be Beautiful
    • The Shameless Skyscraper
    • Misfits’ Guide to MOSCOW
    • Performance Beauty
    • Career Case Study #4: Sir Roy Grounds
    • Dysfunctionalism^2
    • Architecture Myths #20: The Villa Savoye
    • The Homestead Myth
    • The Forgotten Function
    • Architecture Misfit #18: Ignazio Gardella
    • Architecture Misfit #17: Moisei Ginzburg
    • Architecture Myths #19: Popular Culture
    • Architecture Misfit #16: Douglas Haskell
    • Building Bridges
    • 1928: The Meeting
    • Moneymaking Machines #4: 2 World Trade Center
    • The Japanese Machiya
    • Rocket Science
    • Misfits’ 2015 Midsummernights’ Quiz
    • The Water Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
    • How Other Folks Live
    • Sheds Without Shame
    • 1928: The Types Study
    • Vertical Farmwash
    • 1927: The Competition
    • The Things Architects Do #9: The Dating Game
    • The Constructivists
    • The Things Architect Do #8: Cherry Blossoms
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #12: Getting Some Rays
    • Architecture Myths #18: The Free Plan
    • Inflationary Tendencies
    • Honorary Architecture Misfit: Kiyonori Kikutake
    • Architecture Myths #17: Genius Loci
    • Career Case Study #3: Glen Howard Small
    • Too Clever for Words
    • The Well-Serviced Apartment
    • The building is not trying to be a mountain
    • More Poor Doors
    • Fun!tionalism
    • Moneymaking Machines #3: 625 W57th Street
    • Existential Architecture: Being There.
    • Old Ideas for New Architectures
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #11: Keeping the Water Out
    • Moneymaking Machines #2: New York by Gehry
    • The Things Architects Do #8: Themes
    • dysfunctionalism
    • Architecture Misfit #15: Knud Peter Harboe
    • The Big Brush
    • Smoke & Mirrors
    • Architecture Myths #16: Memes
    • Architecture Myths #15: Intellectual vs. Romantic
    • Career Case Study #2: Norman Jaffe
    • Architecture Myths #14: The Difficult Whole
    • The Mystery of Beauty
    • Slum Porn
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #10: Integrated Sanitation and Nutrition
    • Home Grown
    • Calories/m3
    • The Orangery
    • Moneymaking Machines #1: 432 Park Avenue
    • The Great Filter
    • He
    • Food as Art
    • Food & Shelter
    • The Microbial Home
    • Dubai Deconstruction Update
    • Waste . . . zzzzt . . . Energy.
    • The Internet of Things
    • The Buildings Of YEMEN
    • The Snail is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
    • Kazuo Shinohara’s Houses
    • Architecture for Fascists, by Fascists
    • The Real Function of Form
    • Opera Houses
    • Iraqi Parliament Building Competition
    • Designer Bookbinding
    • The Chartreuse Ford
    • Game Changers
    • Love You Long Time
    • Sordid Mechanics
    • New Radical Pragmatism
    • Corner Stores
    • Do-gooders
    • Political Correctness and Architecture
    • Not the Sagrada Familia
    • The Things Architects Do #7: Brand Recognition
    • Silent City vs. Hello Kitty
    • BAD FORM
    • 1945
    • Architecture Misfit #14: Eladio Dieste
    • Architecture Myths #13: Field Space
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 3.7 – Styles as Research Programmes
    • SHELTER
    • Showboating
    • Is Aesthetics Sustainable?
    • Guilty Pleasures
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #9: Natural Ventilation
    • Architectural Myths #12: The Daring Cantilever
    • Post-Jencksian Architecture
    • The One Wall House
    • The Rules of Showbiz
    • Spiritual Beauty
    • Against Architecture
    • Gone, Mostly Forgotten
    • Architecture Misfit #13: Georg Muche
    • Lapatie House vs. Fifth Avenue Apple Store
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 3.6 – Styles
    • Zoomorphic Architecture
    • The Undecorated Shed
    • Architecture Myths #11: Lowly Building Types
    • Architecture Myths #10: Learning from Nature
    • Unsung Hero: Yoshikatsu Tsuboi
    • Architecture Misfit #12: Nader Khalili
    • Stealth Developments
    • The Building is Not Trying To Look Beautiful #2: New Monte Rosa Hut
    • The Things Architects Do #6: Things They Regret
    • Green Computing and the Smart Shed
    • Good on Paper
    • Architecture Misfit #11: Laurie Baker
    • Architecture Misfit #10: Colin Lucas
    • Architecture Myths #9: Clean Lines
    • The Maximum Dwelling: RESPECT
    • SAVE THE WORLD!
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #8: Repetition
    • Misfits’ Hit List
    • Architectistan
    • The Things Architects Do #5: Sell, Sell, Sell
    • The Suitcase Is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
    • The Maximum Dwelling
    • Architecture Without Architects
    • Silly Season: Serpentines and Ladders
    • History Scrapheap
    • Not these sounds (again) !
    • 2013 Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Pages 237~240
    • Architecture Misfit #9: Karel Teige
    • Architecture Myths #8: Convenience
    • The Persistence of Beauty
    • Isamu Noguchi: Aesthetic Efficiency
    • Buildings of Questionable Purpose
    • The Rise of Solar Cell Efficiency
    • The Demise of the Green Roof
    • More From Less #2: Diébédo Francis Kéré
    • More From Less: The Principle
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chaps. 3.3~3.4
    • Aesthetic Effect #5: COMBINE
    • Architecture Misfit #8: Hassan Fathy
    • Architecture Myths #7: Purity of Form
    • Can Architecture Heal Loss?
    • COR-TEN® Steel
    • The Tree is Not Trying to be an Asset
    • Cultural Kowtow
    • The Dominant Narrative
    • Time & Architecture: Part 2
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chaps. 3.1~3.3
    • Architecture Myths #6: Maximising Views
    • The Red Igloo vs. The Autopoiesis of Architecture
    • Prefab Pyramid
    • The Antikythera Mechanism
    • The Microhouse
    • Operations, Structures and Processes
    • How Architecture Works
    • Cold Logic vs. Warm Logic
    • The Car That Runs on Air
    • The Microflat
    • Architecture Myths #5: A is to B as B is to A+B
    • WE ♥ PLANTS
    • The Venus Project
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #7: Evapo-transpiration
    • Architecture in Motion, Again
    • The Things Architects Do #4: Reuse, Recycle, Reprise
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #6: The Stack Effect
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #5: Night Sky Radiant Cooling
    • Architecture Myths #4: Gardens in the Sky
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #4: Humidity Control
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #3: Yakhchal
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #2: Ventilation
    • Architecture Misfits #7: Lacaton & Vassal
    • The Things Architects Do #3: SANAA
    • Five Architects to Watch
    • Glass and Other Houses
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Volume 1 Chapter 2.5 – The Necessity of Demarcation
    • The KISS Principle
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chapter 2.4 – Architectural Research
    • WORLD ARCHITECTURE 1963 Part 2
    • WORLD ARCHITECTURE 1963
    • More Space in Space
    • Architecture vs. Building
    • The Fabergé Egg
    • The Things Historians Do
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 2.3 – Avant-garde vs. Mainstream
    • It’s Not Rocket Science #1: Thermal Mass
    • Celebrity Shoot-out
    • Disambiguation: ARM Architecture
    • The Things Architects Do #4: Concepts
    • Venturi’s Vehicles
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap. 2 – The Historical Emergence of Architecture (1/2)
    • The Television Tower is Not Trying to Look Beautiful
    • The New Objectivity
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol.1 Chap.1: Architectural Theory
    • Antarctic Architecture
    • Learning From Flying Saucers
    • The Green Veneer
    • Retrofitting Architectural Concepts
    • The Autopoiesis of Architecture: Vol. 1 – Preface, Introduction
    • Misfit Motors
    • Fact, Opinion, Bollocks
    • What Happens When Architects Die?
    • “Fill’erup with Specialness!”
    • Quick Question
    • The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
    • Primitive Attributes
    • Architecture Misfit #6: George Fred Keck
    • Career Case Study #1: Frederick Kiesler
    • Architecture Myths #3: Futurist Early Deaths
    • Architecture Misfits #5: The Futurists
    • New Theories for Old Truths
    • Moneti$ing Architectural Fame (In 6 Easy Diagrams!)
    • Monetising Architectural Fame
    • The Shed is Not Trying to Look Beautiful #1
    • Awkward Moments
    • “Hello-o! The tree is not trying to be beautiful.”
    • Not All Photographs Lie (extra)
    • Not All Photographs Lie
    • The Money Shot
    • Misfits’ All-Time Top 10 Hits
    • Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz
    • The Beauty of the Higgs Boson
    • Time & Architecture: Part I (NOW and WAS NOW)
    • SPACE-TIME & ARCHITECTURE
    • Architecture Misfit #4: Adolfo Natalini
    • Architecture Misfit #3: Eileen Gray
    • News from Overseas
    • Architecture Misfit #2: Irving John Gill
    • “It’s a shed!”
    • Misfits’ “English for Architects” Awards
    • The House That Came to Nothing
    • Architectural Dogma
    • The New Architecture of Austerity
    • HAPPY BIRTHDAY BURJ!!
    • Architecture Myths #2: The Artist
    • Structural Engineering as Art?
    • Assorted Architecture Myths
    • An Integrative Design Approach
    • Pylon Competition Winner
    • Prefab Parametric!
    • Misfit Table Quiz
    • Pylon Competition Update
    • The DARKER Side of Villa Savoye
    • The Things Architects Do #2: Ornament
    • The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #3: Daylighting & Views
    • Pylon Design Competition
    • Culture, History, etc. and BUILDINGS (1)
    • Three Nasty Trends In Architecture
    • Dream Machine
    • The Beauty I See in Al Hambra
    • Architecture Misfit #1: Hannes Meyer
    • The Twisted Education of Architects
    • YES MAN
    • The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #2: Energy & Carbon
    • Markitecture
    • Architects, the new tailors
    • The Dark Side of the Villa Savoye
    • The Red Igloo
    • The Process Behind A Better Architecture Building STACEY #1: Site
    • Where Architecture Went Wrong
    • What’s the point of Architecture? – Part 2
    • What’s the point of Architecture? – Part 1
    • Architecture Myths #1: “Islamic Architecture”
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