Delve into the washitsu's role in Japanese homes, blending cultural history with contemporary interior design for a unique ...

The book traces his unconventional path in architecture, from his early life, born to Japanese immigrants in 1912, to his path in architecture, moving to New York City during the Great Depression.

“As a floating capsule of civility the house embodied the dawn of a new era,” Florian Idenburg, a partner at the New York architecture firm SO-IL has written. “It showed Japan could rise ...

He also adopted the use of the continuous eaves found in Japanese sukiya architecture (a residential typology linked to the traditional tea ceremony); only giving them a more contemporary twist by ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full ...

Much of that is due to Japan’s architecture. In preparation for the frequent quakes that occur in the nation, where four tectonic plates meet, Japan has adjusted its standards for structural ...