Kōji Taki, “Introduction: Form and Program,” in Itsuko Hasegawa: Selected and Current Works by Itsuko Hasegawa, trans. Michel van Ackere (Mulgrave, Australia: Images Publishing Group, 1997), 11.
Thomas Daniell and Itsuko Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” AA Files 72 (2016): 24.
Up until winning the open Shonandai Cultural Centre competition, Hasegawa’s independent architectural practice had been gaining increasing recognition for a series of private homes in Japan throughout the 1970s.
Taki, “Introduction: Form and Program,” 11.
Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (New York: Catapult, 2019), 20.
Kikutake famously divided his studio into three teams—“ka,” “kata,” and “katachi”—which might best be translated as “force, gesture, and shape.” Daniell and Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” 24.
Itsuko Hasegawa, “My Work of the Seventies,” SD (Space Design) 247, no. 4 (April 1985): 108–9.
Based on the 1950 Kenchikushi Law in Japan, architectural licensing is divided into first and second classes (as well as a mokuzo kenchikushi designation that was added in 1984 specifically for wood construction). A first class architect license in Japan allows one to oversee both design and construction on reinforced concrete and steel structures, as well as any large-scale public buildings and places of assembly such as schools, hospitals, theaters, etc. With much of Shinohara’s work in the early 1970s being in wood, a first class license wasn’t necessary.
Daniell and Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” 25.
Daniell and Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” 25.
Daniell and Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” 25.
Daniell and Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” 25.
“Special Feature: Itsuko Hasegawa,” SD (Space Design) 247, no. 4 (April 1985).
Daniell and Hasegawa, “Itsuko Hasegawa in Conversation with Thomas Daniell,” 34.
Kōji Taki and Itsuko Hasegawa, “An Interview with Itsuko Hasegawa: Architectural Feminism,” SD (Space Design) 247, no. 4 (April 1985): 80. Translation by the author.
Taki and Hasegawa, “An Interview with Itsuko Hasegawa, ” 80–81. Translation by the author.
Taki and Hasegawa, “An Interview with Itsuko Hasegawa, ” 81–82. Translation by the author, emphasis his.
Kōji Taki, “Diversity and Simplicity (1977),” SD (Space Design) 247, no. 4 (April 1985): 92–93.
Taki, “Diversity and Simplicity (1977),” 96–97.