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House in White — Kazuo Shinohara
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Geometry reduced to plane.
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Structural Atmospheres
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Origin:
Tokyo
Era:
1966
Themes / Lineage:
proportion; void; geometry
Field Notes:
plane; void; proportion
Quiet Modernism appears here as geometric reduction to planar form.

Geometry reduced to plane.

House in White — Kazuo Shinohara

Form collapses into flatness.

Depth withdraws.

Plane dominates.

What withdraws?
Geometry often implies depth, yet depth recedes here. Flatness asserts itself. What continues is form held at the surface.

Geometry often implies depth, yet depth recedes here.

Flatness asserts itself.

What continues is form held at the surface.

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