Tomoko Sakamoto – Actar Publishers

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Publisher and designer, born in Tokyo. She studied architecture at Waseda University until her master’s degree. After finishing her degree, and thanks to a scholarship from the Japanese government, in 1999 she moved to Barcelona to do an internship at the architecture office EMBT-Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue Arquitectes Associats. Later she became part of the team of the publishing house Actar in Barcelona as an architecture and design editor (2000-2012). With the experience gained in publishing and editing, in 2012 she created the Spread workspace with David Lorente. The activity is currently diversified in the publishing of books, collaborations written by architecture magazines, such as the organization of workshops, collaboration with universities, participation in competitions, etc., and collaborates closely with professionals such as the designer Luki Huber (with his Manual Thinking workshops) or the photographer Hisao Suzuki.

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SHD: Super Holland Design

Tomoko SakamotoThe anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design.

Tomoko Sakamoto The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design. Featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new techniques and technologies. Dutch designers are inspiring exciting interactions between design and its users, compelling us to re-think the meaning of design itself. They question every aspect of design, creating new concepts, processes, and formats, bravely pushing the limits of user participation and the designer's role. Featuring: Herman van Bostelen, Catalogtree, Office of CC, De Designpolitie, Experimental Jetset, Hans Gremmen, Arjan Groot, Atelier van GOG, Hansje van Halem, Studio Kluif, Julia Müller, Dennis Koot, Koehorst in't Veld, Harmen Liemburg, Luna Maurer, Lesley Moore, Lust, Machine, Meta Haven, Richard Niessen, Ping-pong Design, Sander Plug, STAR, Strange Attractors Design, Roger Teeuwen, Minke Themans, Thonik, Toko, Werkplaats Typografie, You & McCuskey, Zeloot.

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Cohousing in Barcelona (ENG ED.)

David Lorente, Tomoko Sakamoto, Ricardo Devesa, Marta Bugés (eds.)This book is a collection of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, built and under construction

Architecture from / for the Community David Lorente, Tomoko Sakamoto, Ricardo Devesa, Marta Bugés (eds.) Barcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment. This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both complete and under construction. It explains how the co-housing process is managed in terms of architecture, urban planning, financing, legality, and taxation, and delves into the experience of living in a community fueled by a cooperative spirit. The content of the book presents designs for cooperative housing, accompanied by a critical vision of the model’s implications in terms of the transfer of use or co-living. Finished and inhabited projects are compiled along with ongoing projects, to offer a general view of this way of living in Barcelona. The case studies are explained by members of cooperatives, experts and designers who look at aspects of design,

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JPG 2

Tomoko SakamotoThe follow-up to international bestseller Japan Graphics, JPG2 examines changes in Japanese graphic design

Tomoko Sakamoto The follow-up to international bestseller Japan Graphics, JPG2 examines changes in Japanese graphic design. Instead of 'more copies, higher resolution, to a wider audience', there is a greater focus on individual and original works. JPG 2 brings together over 20 design teams, showcasing the evolution of teams from the first JPG as well as new projects, new teams, and the best contemporary design talents. Works by Amane Murakami, Buddha Productions, Dainippon Type Organization, Enlightenment, Hideki Inaba, Higraph, keitarrow, Loworks, Keigo Mohri, Namaiki, Shinji Shimada, Ryuh Tomoaki, Sunday-Vision, Power Graphixx, Takora, Taku Anekawa, TGB design, Tsuyoshi Kusano, Tsuyoshi Hirooka, wabisabi, iseneehihinee.

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Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu (ENG ED.)

Albert Ferré, Tomoko SakamotoLocated in Gifu, sits a building that constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima’s studies on metropolitan housing

Albert Ferré, Tomoko Sakamoto Located in Gifu, sits a building that constitutes the first material expression of Kazuyo Sejima's studies on metropolitan housing. This investigation proceeded from the conclusion that not all subsidized housing needs to be the same. Starting from a generic public housing program, Sejima's housing block in Gifu departs from convention and occupies the conceptual and physical space created between oppositional design concerns: where a strictly modulated structure confronts a random arrangement of different spaces; between the length of the building and the reduction of its built depth; between inhabitable space and the surrounding landscape; between the individual and the family unit. Buy Spanish edition

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Sendai Mediatheque

Albert Ferré, Tomoko Sakamoto Calling him a “creator of timeless buildings,” the Pritzker Jury further praised Ito for “infusing his designs with a spiritual dimension and for the poetics that transcend all his works.” Among those works, the Jury singled out his Sendai Mediatheque, whose innovative use of structural tubes “permitted new interior spatial qualities.” The book Sendai Mediatheque presents the process of design and construction of Ito's prototype during the six years between the building's initial design through to its completion in 2001. The Mediatheque aspires to integrate real and virtual worlds - or, in Ito's words, “the primitive body of natural flow and the virtual body of electronic flow”. Long after its completion, the Mediatheque is still evolving as an evolutionary building that combines the virtual and real into one design objective.

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