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020			_a9784898151174
245		0	_aZero Yen Houses/ _cKyohei Sakaguchi
260			_aJapan; _bLittle More; _c2004
300			_a200p; _c19x19cm
520			_aCollection of photographs with brief descriptions, of temporary structures innovated and set up by homeless people and families on the sidewalks, in parks and other such public spaces. A lean-to in an urban park, featuring a blue tarpaulin roof, a hinged door, and a bamboo blind. A car-shaped cardboard hut, lashed together with rope and sitting on a dolly. Temporary lodging under a bridge, incorporating a piece of playground equipment into its design. Each of these structures is an example of what Japanese artist and architect Kyohei Sakaguchi calls a "zero-yen house".Built by the homeless of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, zero-yen houses employ discarded and found materials, including pieces of wood and corrugated roofing, temple ornaments, blankets, shipping pallets, an umbrella, and those ubiquitous blue tarps. They also incorporate into their assembly the imminence of their disassembly: at any moment, they may have to be taken apart and moved.Since his days as a university student at the turn of the millennium, Sakaguchi has been studying the kinds of shelters that street people have created for themselves in Japan's three largest cities.
546			_aJapanese English
650			_aArchitecture- Residential _99077
650			_aHomelessness _99078
650			_aInformal structures _99079
650			_aShelter _99080
650			_aCapitalism _92806
651			_aJapan
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