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Understanding Japanese Architecture Is Lesson One for Anyone Who Wants a Sleek, Harmonic Home

Following its very own principles, Japanese architecture is a true exhibition in balance: balance between history and modernity, between tradition and innovation. It is everything from centuries-old ...
The Atlantic

Japanese Architecture: A Visit to Some Typical Buildings

INTEREST in Japanese architecture seems to be steadily rising in the United States. American architectural periodicals show an increasing impact of Japanese influence. The Japanese “Pine Breeze House” ...
New Atlas

Traditional Japanese dining experience inspires micro-apartment design

Hong Kong-based architectural studio Sim-Plex has created a stunning micro-home inspired by Japanese culture. The U. Izakaya House in the 57-story Grand Waterfront Plaza, Hong Kong, boasts clever ...
Hyperallergic

MoMA’s New Japanese Architecture: A Vision for the Future That’s Already Here

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (1995-2001); left: exterior view; right: detail of interior support tube (photos ©Naoya Hatakeyama, courtesy of The Museum of ...
insider.si.edu

Wood joints in classical Japanese architecture / Torashichi Sumiyoshi, Gengo Matsui

"English translation from the Japanese in 1991 by Ferenc Kovacs."--T.p. verso. Originally published in Japanese: Mokuzō no tsugite to shiguchi. Japan : Kajima Institute Publishing Co., 1989. siris_sil ...
ArchDaily

The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture

Traditional thought fused with modern science when Hiroshima’s nuclear annihilation on August 6, 1945, proved the interdependence of space and time. Since the war, Japanese architects have probed the ...