Sketchbook Bundle

Sketchbook Bundle

Wang Shu - Imagining the House, Eduardo Souto de Moura: Sktechbook No. 76, Sou Fujimoto Sketchbook

This beautiful collection of books is a homage to the medium of sketching and manifests that this working method remains an essential element of the creative process. “Imagining the House” provides unique insights into the design process of Chinese architect Wang Shu — winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2012 — and follows the process of creating drafts in the form of hand-drawn sketches showing how the designs change and become more concrete over the course of the process. “Sketchbook No. 76” is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura and records first ideas, fleeting sketches, studies, and spontaneous jottings that offer a starting point for every project but also function as a working resource. Finally, the “Sketchbook” by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who stands for unconventional buildings, rounds off the group. Clear divisions such as between floor levels and rooms are shattered by Fujimoto’s complex ground plans and interlocking structures. Through the sketches, drawings, and notes readers can trace how his complex concepts are made manifest and develop on paper.

This beautiful collection of books is a homage to the medium of sketching and manifests that this working method remains an essential element of the creative process. “Imagining the House” provides unique insights into the design process of Chinese architect Wang Shu — winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2012 — and follows the process of creating drafts in the form of hand-drawn sketches showing how the designs change and become more concrete over the course of the process. “Sketchbook No. 76” is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura and records first ideas, fleeting sketches, studies, and spontaneous jottings that offer a starting point for every project but also function as a working resource. Finally, the “Sketchbook” by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, who stands for unconventional buildings, rounds off the group. Clear divisions such as between floor levels and rooms are shattered by Fujimoto’s complex ground plans and interlocking structures. Through the sketches, drawings, and notes readers can trace how his complex concepts are made manifest and develop on paper.

Author(s): Wang Shu, Sou Fujimoto & Eduardo Souto de Moura

varied, varied

620 pages, 523 illustrations

3 books (2 Hard- 1 paperback)

2024, Sketchbook Bundle,
CHF 210.00

Wang Shu

Wang Shu (*1963 in Urumqi, China) received his first degree in architecture in 1985 and his Masters degree in 1988, both from the Nan Nanjing Institute of Technology. In 1997, he founded the Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou, China, together with his wife Lu Wenyu. He is Professor and Head of the Architecture School at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. In 2011, Wang Shu became the first Chinese Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2012, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Eduardo Souto de Moura, born in Porto in 1952, is regarded as one of the most important contemporary architects. In 2011 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize for his architectural work.