{"product_id":"casa-wabi-revised-edition-isbn-9780847847839","title":"Casa Wabi Revised Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eCasa Wabi, a nonprofit arts center located in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, is a stage for world-renowned contemporary artists and architects to engage with the local community.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTadao Ando's remarkable Casa Wabi dots the Pacific coastline of Mexico with structures by Alberto Kalach, Alvaro Siza, Kengo Kuma, Gloria Cabral, Solano Benitez, Jorge Ambrosi, and Gabriela Etchegaray. Founded in 2013 by renowned Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, it combines artist residencies, a gallery, and living quarters with classrooms, gardens, and public space.\u003cbr\u003eTadao Ando centers the foundation on a 312-meter-long wall; his trademark concrete structures radiate off it, capped in woven palm tree leaves for ventilation. These local palapa-style roofs are often the only element distinguishing indoor and outdoor spaces, an effect complemented by wooden shutters in place of paned glass windows. Other unusual native building materials include Mexican parota wood and marmolina.\u003cbr\u003eLed by director Carla Sodi, Casa Wabi challenges architects and artists to contemplate nature deeply, as it provides new tools for area residents. Casa Wabi is both a world-class architectural destination and a model for new\u003cbr\u003estrategies of creative intervention within economically depressed communities.\u003cb\u003eMartino Stierli \u003c\/b\u003eis the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and the SNF Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Zurich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDakin Hart\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Curator at the Noguchi Museum, Queens, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTadao Ando\u003c\/b\u003e is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as \"critical regionalism\". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most highly regarded architects of his generation, Portugese architect \u003cb\u003eÁlvaro Siza \u003c\/b\u003eis known for his sculptural works that have been described as \"poetic modernism.\" He was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBosco Sodi\u003c\/b\u003e is a contemporary artist based in New York City. Sodi has lived, studied, and worked in Paris, Barcelona, and Berlin. He now maintains studios in Barcelona, Berlin, New York, and his native Mexico City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarla Sodi \u003c\/b\u003eis the general director of Casa Wabi, where she oversees an international exhibition program, residencies in Oaxaca and Japan, and education programs ranging from clay, recycling, conservation, drawing to film and performance.","brand":"Rizzoli Electa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304354861285,"sku":"NP9780847847839","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780847847839.jpg?v=1767723447","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/casa-wabi-revised-edition-isbn-9780847847839","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}