EXPOSING THE WORLD

This book focuses solely on the Shonandai cultural centre, the first major public project of Itsuko Hasegawa. The latest Everything without Content publication is the unlikely successor to the previous books we made on the works of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck and Giancarlo de Carlo (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023). Shonandai belongs to a different time —the 1980s— and a different place —Japan— but it shares the desire of the earlier generations to ‘overcome’ modernism. Hasegawa achieves this in the most outlandish way, possible perhaps only in Japan in the 1980s. Shonandai is where the 1960s techno-avant-garde comes full circle. The book features photographs by Stefano Graziani.