Tracing the development of residential architecture in Japan since 1945, a new exhibition opening today at MAXXI in Rome brings together the projects by over 30 Japanese architects. Alongside works by ...

Japanese architecture has never been more in vogue. Today Tadao Ando is virtually a household name and many people marvel at the quirky compact single family homes in Tokyo, which despite often having ...

Upon Hideyoshi’s death, Tokugawa Ieyasu broke his oath of allegiance to the Toyotomi dynasty and seized power as lord of Japan in 1599. Battle to end all battlesA 19th-century screen depicts the ...